Keeping your brain active through social interaction, learning new skills and regular exercise could play an important role ...

Who doesn’t want to be the best person they can be? Maybe a thought like this has never occurred to some people, but, judging from the number of books and workshops and YouTube videos and Ted Talks ...

September is Pain Awareness Month, and more than 51 million Americans report living with chronic pain. Over the past couple of decades, experts say increased prescriptions of opioid medications were ...

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 ...

When it comes to keeping the ol' wheels turning in your brain as you age, Dr. Erica Simpson of The Methodist Hospital says the adage is true: use it or lose it. Simpson, assistant professor of ...

Your brain does all kinds of strange things. Neuroscientist Heather Berlin explains how it works. Your brain does all kinds of strange things — and neuroscientist Heather Berlin wants to explain how ...

Actress and comedian Amy Sedaris plays a video game at a Dave & Buster’s in Manhattan, New York City. (Photo: Courtesy of Centrum) When it comes to brain health, actress and comedian Amy Sedaris ...

As I learned the hard way 8 years ago, when my husband, Scott, began the downward spiral of dementia after suffering a traumatic brain injury, doctors are loath to admit they know little about what ...

If you’re ending each day feeling drained, the problem may not be your workload, but how your brain is being used. Most leaders over-rely on the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s planning and ...

In the past decade, the computational power of AI has grown exponentially—doubling every six months since 2010 for some well-known tools. This, in tandem with more sophisticated machine learning ...

As a psychologist and neuroscientist with over two decades of research, I’m shocked by all the pseudoscience and misinformation on the internet about the brain and mental health. The truth is: Brain ...