Tag Archives: Neuroscience

The Zombie Research Society has defined the modern zombie as a relentlessly aggressive, reanimated human corpse driven by a biological infection. This is our official ...

Research recently published by the scientific journal Cell Metabolism suggests that cellular senescence can drive anxiety and impair neurogenesis. Put simply; they’ve discovered that dead ...

The Zombie Research Society defines the modern zombie as a relentlessly aggressive human corpse reanimated by a biological infection. However, this concept seems to ignore ...

Fatalism is often depicted in zombie fiction, but the concept itself is rarely explored in any real detail. Characters sacrifice themselves for the common good, ...

To better understand the living dead, we must first understand the living brain. We can gain a fascinating insight into the behavior of zombies by ...

Scientists have recently identified specific areas of the brain containing a gene often associated with a number of neurological disorders including Lou Gehrig’s disease and ...

People who are skeptical that there ever could be anything even remotely resembling a zombie apocalypse point to the fact that, short of something supernatural, ...

Distinguished neuroscientist Timothy Verstynen, professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, visited Google’s Cambridge, MA office on Halloween. He was there to discuss the book ...

Though in a normal human brain all blood flow ceases at death, in zombies this may not be the case. Prevailing hypotheses suggest that the ...

Israeli scientists have recently discovered how a jewel wasp’s sting controls the mind of a cockroach, opening the door to understanding the neurobiology of free ...