We all have negative thoughts from time to time. But what if those fleeting moments of pessimism were doing more than just dampening your mood? According to new research, the way you think doesn't ...

MRI technology from Duke-led effort reveals the entire mouse brain in the highest resolution DURHAM, N.C. – Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is how we visualize soft, watery tissue that is hard to ...

To build a better brain, just exercise. That’s the message of two important new studies of how physical activity changes our minds. In one, scientists delved into the lives, DNA and cognition of ...

A new optical illusion, shared by TikTok creator Mia Yilin, has gone viral across social media. According to a video posted by Yilin, this viral image claims to identify whether a person is a deep ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers investigated the navigational route planning neural processing cascade of human brains. They recorded electroencephalography ...

In an excerpt from her new book, When Life Happens, Dr. Rachel Goldman walks you through how to change your internal ...

In my last article, I introduced the concept of brain illusions whereby people can “adopt” a fake hand as their own, and I mentioned how people with eating disorders are much more susceptible to this ...

The difference between the brain's predicted age and actual chronological age, called a brain age gap, may influence the relationship between cognitive impairment risk factors, like high blood ...

Right-brain vs. left-brain thinking is often discussed in psychology. Everybody uses both thinking types to some degree, but nearly everyone tends to have one or the other as a primary thinking style.