Scientists have pinpointed five different "eras" of brain aging, from childhood to old age. The eras include a prolonged ...

Michiel van Elk receives funding from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO; grant id# VI.Vidi.191.107). He is affiliated as board member with Open Foundation ...

New research suggests that a hidden trait in your body could hold the key to maintaining a younger brain — and the ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often described as one of the invisible scars that firefighters and others accumulate after years of dealing with trauma in their jobs. Now the scars are ...

When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a museum for example, what do you see and what do you feel? Does it conjure an old memory, a sense of spirituality, or confusion? Artists and ...

When you’re asleep, you can seem completely dead to the world. But when you wake up, in an instant you can be up and at ‘em. How does the brain turn on awareness or consciousness? This question has ...

Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different environments—whether it's swimming in a lake or walking a path—without ...

Your brain can’t always tell the difference between a jump scare and a real threat. But what’s thrilling for some people can be harmful for others. Whether you’re in real danger or just watching a ...

Public Service Announcements want you to believe that your brain on drugs is comparable to an egg frying in a pan. But do you really want to listen to people who use eggs as metaphors? We may not know ...

We’re all traveling all the time. It might be mundane, like that rote commute to school drop-off or our workplace, or the travel might be unusual, like that time my husband and I swam with stingrays ...

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