BRAIN

New U.S. research has shown that the brain uses a different type of decision making when forced to act rapidly.

A new e-book offers consumer-friendly information on the science of nutrition and brain health along with 100 recipes.

Time appears to slows down as a person prepares to make a physical action due to changes in ...

When we look at images that have emotional meaning, we actually see and remember them more clearly than ...

Consuming cocoa every day could help reduce the effects of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition involving memory ...

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) has long been underreported and misunderstood, but its increasing prevalence in the United States, ...

Spending long amounts of time in space may affect your vision and other parts of your brain, according ...

Conventional theories are unable to explain near-death experiences.

Magnetic stimulation of the brain may be a good treatment for people who have suffered a stroke and ...

Experienced meditators can switch off areas of the brain associated with daydreaming, anxiety, and certain psychiatric disorders like ...

Magnetic brain stimulation can help stroke victims regain their ability to speak, research at the Australia's University of ...

The number of friends a person has on Facebook correlates with the size of particular regions in the ...

Meditation may increase connectivity between different parts of the brain and reduce brain shrinkage due to aging, according ...

“Relax with your eyes closed …” is something people ought to try, according to a new study that ...

Thupten Rinpoche, a Tibetan monk in New Zealand, died in May but reportedly lay for nearly three weeks ...

Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars showed a 50 percent improvement in their post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ...

Cholesterol and fat are really important to the brain.

The section of the brain thought to be responsible for visual reading doesn't need to “see” at all.

Mindfulness meditation is associated with measurable changes in people's brains.

The article “Walking Linked to Less Brain Shrinkage” describes a correlation found between walking and brain gray matter.

Autism in adults can now be diagnosed from a 15-minute MRI scan of the brain, using a computer ...

The mind may be more easily trained to focus than we previously believed.

Evidence suggests that our minds might exist within a morphogenic field.