A few minutes beside trees or water can shift the brain into a calmer state. That change is not just a feeling.

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Your brain thrives on predictability. By honoring a consistent bedtime, you aren't just getting "rest"—you are optimizing ...

What are you doing when you aren’t doing anything at all? If you said “nothing,” then you have just passed a test in logic and flunked a test in neuroscience. When people perform mental tasks–adding ...

Maybe people can control time — or their perception of it, anyway. A new paper written by UNLV professor of psychology James Hyman and published recently in Current Biology shows that the way people ...

I slumped in a wheelchair in my doctor’s office. The clock above the door ticked erratically, as if someone outside the room was winding the gears forward and then turning them back every few seconds.

Recent studies show the importance of giving the brain healthy breaks — and it may look slightly different than you think. To process information effectively, the brain should function in a specific ...

Can brain training “rewire” the brain to prevent dementia? What about repair the brain following an injury? Or turn back the ...

Evidence keeps mounting that exercise is good for the brain. It can lower a person’s risk for Alzheimer’s disease and may even slow brain aging by about 10 years. Now, new research helps illuminate ...

Motherhood and menopause can affect women's cognitive health, positively, for the long-term—with significant implications for ...

Facial expressions arise from brain networks that encode slow, context-rich meaning and fast muscle control on different time ...