Silent synapses are dormant neural connections that hold untapped brain potential. Discover how ketamine, exercise, and other ...

What a brainless slime mold can teach us about decision-making, intellectual curiosity, and thriving in an uncertain world.

If you've ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a new study reveals the reason: Our brains physically link memories that occur close ...

Students at Cloquet Middle School got a chance today to do some hands on learning about their brains. Undergraduate students from U.M.D.’s psychology department brought their mobile neuroscience lab ...

Learn how dancing for stress can boost your mental health while providing social support and enhancing emotional well-being.

It's not that you don't have memories from infancy — it's that you simply can't access them later in life, new research shows ...

If you’ve ever caught yourself mindlessly copying someone else, it’s because of something called “mirroring activity” in the ...

The functioning of the brain relies on the establishment of very precise connections between neurons: synapses. A recent ...

The Queen's Psychology Department is home to 35 labs where faculty members conduct research in Cognitive Neuroscience, as well as Developmental, Social, and Clinical Psychology. Students have the ...

The communication system between your gut and brain is called the gut-brain axis. They’re connected both physically and biochemically in a number of different ways. They may even influence each ...

The brain is the part of the central nervous system that is contained within the skull. It is responsible for executive and cognitive functions and regulates the functioning of the other parts of ...