Forget the "quiet study room," new research suggests that your level of interest is the real secret to focus. Learn how an ...

Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Leading brain scientists called on Thursday for the growing knowledge of neuroscience to play a greater role in education and provide a scientific basis for developing new and more ...

Dr. Stanislas Dehaene, a respected neuroscientist, holds the Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collége de France in Paris and directs the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit at ...

On Thursday, the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute welcomed Dani Bassett, a professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and an incoming professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale ...

Dr. Tiff Thompson, Ph.D., is revolutionizing mental health by moving beyond symptom management to treat the brain’s root patterns. Using qEEG and neurostimulation, she empowers the brain to reorganize ...

Lifelong learning can delay Alzheimer's by 5 years. New research explores the link between mental activity and dementia risk.

Learning involves changes in the brain and affects all aspects of human behaviour. Such brain changes are particularly pronounced during the early school years, when children learn for the first time ...

Theresa McKim, Ph.D., is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. She teaches neurobiology, data science, neuroscience laboratory techniques, and ...

Discovery learning for word study with minimal guidance, currently a dominant practice in many American schools ensconced by decades of whole language training and whole-language-inspired published ...