Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm that receives signals from his brain via a computer. He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by ...

Researchers find that parents show patterns of brain connectivity that oppose age-related changes. Parents' brains may be getting an unexpected benefit from raising children: protection against ...

You’ve probably heard people use the term “brain fog” to describe times when they felt like their brain function was slightly off. It’s often associated with symptoms like trouble ...

The human brain is often lauded as one of nature's most extraordinary creations, as our sensory systems take in trillions of bits of information per second. Yet only a fraction of that makes it to ...

Stock and bond markets are fundamentally groups of people all trying to make decisions with incomplete information. Understanding psychology can be key to learning the way decisions are made.

The Department of Psychology & Brain Sciences will launch a new Master of Science in applied psychology next fall. Faculty within the program said it will focus on interdepartmental specialties, like ...

The Psychology BSc is a three-year, British Psychological Society (BPS)-accredited course that teaches students to use scientific methods to explore and understand human behaviour. They ask ...

The widespread diffusion of screen-based devices in adolescence has fueled a debate about the beneficial and detrimental effects on adolescents’ well-being and development. With the aim of summarizing ...

Much evidence shows that physical exercise (PE) is a strong gene modulator that induces structural and functional changes in the brain, determining enormous benefit on both cognitive functioning and ...