One of the more encouraging findings out of the Rush study is that although the benefits were greater when someone seeks out ...

Schizophrenia risk may reflect two brain pathways with different cortical and subcortical balance. Early language learning ...

A trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism seems able to predict one thing will follow another, hinting that such associative learning emerged long before multicellular nervous systems ...

The Conversation reports that the brain can be trained like muscles; new challenges and rest help boost brain health and connectivity.

Doctors often advise exercising your brain to stay sharp but stretching your brain might be the better description.

Researchers challenge the long-standing "neural independence" theory, showing that learning actually makes neurons more coordinated.

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have trained lab-grown clusters of mouse brain cells to balance a ...

The best fish for brain health provide healthy omega-3 fats, antioxidants, and nutrients like vitamin D that support memory and brain function.

Keeping your brain active through social interaction, learning new skills and regular exercise could play an important role in protecting long term brain health. Psychologist Kimberley Wilson joined ...

For almost a century, psychology and neuroscience researchers have been trying to understand the processes via which humans and other animals acquire new skills or learn to deal with specific ...

The visceral substrate of selfhood is not an add-on to cognitive self-awareness; in many frameworks, it is its foundation. Neuroimaging shows the anterior insula co-activating with the medial ...