A 9-year-old girl walked slowly down the clinic hallway. 10 months earlier, her days had been dominated by seizures—sudden ...

Why are we able to recall only some of our past experiences? A new study led by Jun Nagai at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan has an answer.

Brain-training games are all the rage, but whether they prevent cognitive decline has been debatable. Studies in recent years ...

Michael Chernus and Marin Ireland talk about bringing the true crime tale to life while honoring Gacy's victims.

When we form a memory, brain cells need to deliver supplies to strengthen specific neural connections. A new study from MPFI ...

Less commonly discussed dimensions, such as moral reasoning, also appear to peak in older adulthood. And the capacity to ...

Memories are not immutable records. Instead, they are dynamic reconstructions, revised each time we retrieve them.

Emotions generally boil down to appraisals and attribution. Negative emotions, such as test anxiety, for example, often occur ...

During the event, Rust discussed a new method for researchers to change their processes and successfully discover cures to ...

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...

Déjà vu—the eerie feeling that a new moment has happened before—has puzzled scientists and philosophers for centuries.

So since we all learn best by doing, it only makes sense that testing yourself — as long as you do it the right way — is the ...