A new study in expert birders suggests that becoming an expert in a given field could help slow down cognitive decline.

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...

Lower dementia risk and live a better quality of life with an occasional round of Monopoly or chess with the family.

According to Dr Mezher, our brain has overlapping processing and coping mechanisms for emotional and physical distress, which can make a heartache feel real at a physical level.

The human brain works in interesting ways - you probably didn't know that your body is paralysed when you sleep or that we are motion blind for hours every day! | Health ...

Javier Milei’s market-absolutist hymn about reining in regulators and not big companies made two incorrect assumptions (By Invitation, January 17th). First, he stated that artificial intelligence will ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly dependent on increases in prenatal estrogen—revealed by looking at the length ...

The idea that the human brain is divided into a logical left half and a creative right half has become one of the most enduring metaphors in psychology and popular culture. While this simplification ...

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