Feeling a bit sick? Wondering if you're coming down with something? If your first instinct is to turn to Google for a little self-diagnosis, maybe think agai...

Alzheimer's disease and other dementias can have devastating effects. Neuroscience is searching for ways to offset, delay, or prevent these maladies; after a...

Welcome back to our Sleep Series, a string of blog posts about the role of sleep in our lives, including the benefits of achieving enough slumber and tips to...

Can you predict what someone's personality will be like based on their infant behavior? A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health suggests that...

It will probably not come as a surprise to you that life during a pandemic can be challenging for one's mental health. Even the CDC website warns, in an act ...

If you took French or Spanish in high school, now's the time to brush up on those verb tenses. A study at UCLA has found that people who are proficient in tw...

By now, all our lives have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Events have been canceled. Movie theaters and restaurants stand empty. In an effort to slow...

As Covid-19 forces us indoors, people are more and more relying on their social circles, for favors big and small. William Chopik, assistant professor of psy...

Welcome back to our Sleep Series, a string of blog posts about the role of sleep in our lives, including the benefits of achieving enough slumber and tips to...

Welcome back to our Sleep Series, a string of blog posts about the role of sleep in our lives, including the benefits of achieving enough slumber and tips to...

As adults, we don’t need to be persuaded to seek a good night’s sleep. That well-rested, energetic feeling is reward enough. But what about kids? Research sh...

Parks and nature preserves: they're not just for taking a jog or walking your dog. Visiting green spaces yields real benefits for the brain. Let's take a loo...

Regular, sustained physical activity has countless mental benefits. Just to name a few, working out improves blood flow, boosts your BDNF ("miracle-gro for t...

Image credit: Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Put down that plate of calamari! For the first time, Dr Wen-Sung Chung and Professor J...

They are quite possibly the first animal we ever domesticated, at least 15,000 years ago. Before the Pyramids of Giza, before Stonehenge, before the Megalith...

Blue light, or light that exists at wavelengths between 380 and 500 nanometers, has a complicated reputation. The sun gives off blue light. So do TV screens ...

It’s a sobering problem: in 2017, the US alone saw over 47,000 preventable suicide deaths. That same year, suicide was the cause of death for 19% of people b...

If you’ve ever watched a toddler bob up and down to their favorite song, the origins of dance might seem clear: moving to a rhythm appears to be something li...

Have you ever found yourself walking down a busy city sidewalk, so overwhelmed and overstimulated by all the signs, sounds, and cars that you felt your mood ...

Minnesota-based singer-songwriter, rapper, and essayist Dessa is famous—to the extent she is famous—for her gorgeous, aching breakup songs. What even many fa...