When you're mentally exhausted, your brain might be doing more behind the scenes than you think. In a new study using functional MRI, researchers uncovered two key brain regions that activate when ...

The brain isn't a computer—it's a dynamic, adaptable system shaped by evolution. It's emotional, contextual, and designed for ...

Rejection can feel physically painful. It also provides a lesson for your brain on whom to connect with and how.

During imagination, many of the same brain regions activate in the same manner as when you see a real apple. Until recently, it remained unclear how the brain distinguishes between these real and ...

Long considered solely a “sex hormone,” the boons of estrogen in the brain are many, with impacts on cognition, memory, mood, dementia risk, and more.

Handily, a team of scientists out of Singapore just discovered a simple way to keep remote meetings from frying your brain, and it is blessedly simple. Just switch your Zoom background.

Short-term memory. Your short-term memory is probably a lot shorter than you think. A classic study in cognitive psychology found that participants in a study could only recall 10% of random three ...

What we ‘see’ in the brain depends on which tool we use to ‘look’ – but each one comes with trade-offs.