The brain creates the mind through flexible networks. While science maps this connection, significant questions remain, ...

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 ...

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.