When we are engaged in a task, our brain's auditory system changes how it works. One of the main auditory centers of the ...

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

Most leaders rely heavily on one key region of the brain: the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which is responsible for high-order ...

Two brain regions, M2 and OFC, work together to balance steady habits with flexible learning when choices become uncertain.

Short term stress can be a good thing – but when chronic it affects everything from immunity to digestion. Here’s how to keep it under control ...

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC researchers found that after a cocktail, participants in a pilot study who were taking medications for diabetes and weight loss saw delayed effects from ...

Exercise can help your pain, but it hurts to exercise. Done strategically, however, movement can reshape the way your body ...

Groundbreaking Harvard research is exposing hidden energy failures inside brain cells that may drive major psychiatric conditions. By studying reprogrammed neurons, scientists are revealing how ...

Brain and psychology researchers are delving into how slides down the moral slope begin and what keeps them going. Initially ...

Here are some of the strategies used by athletes, who are in many ways great people for the general public to learn from as it pertains to overcoming adversity. While no one can predict future events, ...

Waves of synchronized, coordinated neuronal activity have been observed and studied in the brain for over a century. But for ...

They preserve our jokes, our slang, our tension between tradition and modernity, our class gaps, our gender struggles.