Washington, Feb 27: Immoral behaviour really does leave a "bad taste in the mouth", claims a new study, which found that disgust over an unfair social situation is hard-wired into the human body as strongly as the reaction to a foul taste.

The University of Toronto study shows a link between moral disgust and more primitive forms of disgust related to poison and disease.

"Morality is often pointed to as the pinnacle of human evolution and development," says lead author Hanah Chapman, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology.

Washington, February 27: Scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center claim to have achieved a significant breakthrough in showing what brain activity looks like when someone anticipates any action.

Writing about their work in the Journal of Neuroscience, the researchers say that this neural clairvoyance involves strong activity in brain areas that are responsible for preparing the body to move.

Washington, Feb 27 : People who covered their notepads with scribbles may not have had entirely wasted the goal behind attending a dull meeting, suggests a new study, which found that doodling while listening can help with remembering details.

As per the study, which has been published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, subjects given a doodling task while listening to a dull phone message had a 29 percent improved recall compared to their non-doodling counterparts.

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Washington, February 27: The European Society of Cardiology has warned that elderly people, who regularly report feeling sleepy during the day, may be at an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.

The warning comes following the publication of a French study by the American Heart Association in the journal Stroke.

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed two compounds that may be effective in protecting against cerebral palsy, a condition caused by neurodegeneration that affects body movement and muscle coordination.

"The results were just stunning, absolutely amazing. There was a remarkable difference between animals treated with a small dose of one of our compounds and those that were not," said Richard B. Silverman, John Evans Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern, who led the drug development effort.