Recent studies show the importance of giving the brain healthy breaks — and it may look slightly different than you think. To process information effectively, the brain should function in a specific ...

Editor’s note: Season 8 of the podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets back to basics with an in-depth examination of the brain in different states. Each episode will focus on one of those ...

The Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) in the Institute of Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, Korea, is developing new neuroimaging approaches to explore biophysics, physiology, and biology, and ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a new algorithm, the Krakencoder, that merges multiple types of brain imaging data to better understand how the brain s wiring underpins behavior, ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...

That mid-afternoon mental fog might be preventable with a simple addition to your morning meal. Recent scientific research suggests that incorporating walnuts into breakfast could significantly ...

Variety may be the spice of life, but spices themselves hold the key to a healthier, longer life. More than just a dash of flavor, spices provide much-needed benefits to the brain, improving memory ...

About two daily servings of this common crunchy snack could increase verbal memory and blood flow to the brain Getty A new study analyzed older adults who ate 60 grams of unsalted skin-roasted peanuts ...

Your brain does not start the day at full power. It is shifting from sleep into alertness. During that transition, light, movement, food, hydration, and stress cues begin steering the day. Sleep ...

Share on Pinterest Exercise gives the brain a boost, and may help protect against cognitive decline, but why? Image credit: NICK VEASEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Exercise can stimulate brain ...

The depth of the brain’s unconscious, taken-for-granted functions and complex conscious abilities comes into sharp relief when they are disrupted in cases of brain disease and injury. Whether the ...

My last article focused, oddly enough…on focus—namely, how to help gifted students who are easily distracted by outside stimuli. Those of you with easily distracted students or children of your own ...