Many older adults struggle with sleep as their brains fail to switch off, a study reveals. Insomniacs' brains remain alert due to a flattened circadian rhythm and persistent sequential thinking, ...

The brain controls many aspects of thinking — remembering, planning and organizing, making decisions, and much more. These cognitive abilities affect how well we do everyday tasks and whether we can ...

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early ...

A 20-year follow-up of the ACTIVE study found that older adults who did speed-based cognitive training, especially with later booster sessions, were less likely to receive a dementia diagnosis, ...

Brain fog is a term people use to describe a group of cognitive symptoms, including trouble concentrating, slower thinking, forgetfulness, and feeling mentally worn out. People experiencing brain fog ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...

As we work on overcoming what scares us, a new plasticity becomes available in our brain, and fear strikes out.

One thing that distinguishes human beings is their capacity for proactive, prolonged aggression, a human characteristic that results from the complex consciousness created by language. 1 Since threats ...

For years, business culture has boxed us in. You’re either a “numbers person” or a “creative.” Analytical or instinctive. Tactical or inspired. Left-brained or right-brained. Poets on one side, quants ...