As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...

I slumped in a wheelchair in my doctor’s office. The clock above the door ticked erratically, as if someone outside the room was winding the gears forward and then turning them back every few seconds.

Imagine giving your brain a mini reset, not with caffeine, nootropic pills or hours of meditation but simply by adjusting ...

What are you doing when you aren’t doing anything at all? If you said “nothing,” then you have just passed a test in logic and flunked a test in neuroscience. When people perform mental tasks–adding ...

Helen Hamilton Gardener, an author and the only female member of the U. S. Civil Service Commission, recently died (TIME, Aug. 17). Among other things which she left in her will was her brain, ...

A new evidence review published in the journal Early Education and Development looked at 23 years of neuroimaging research, specifically 33 studies that used neuroimaging techniques to measure the ...

Scientists developed two new sensors that can detect brain cell communication in real time, tracking chemical messages between neurons with unprecedented speed and sensitivity. Dramatic performance ...

A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers ...

Your brain is constantly evolving. Throughout your life, it reshapes, adjusts, and grows stronger in response to learning, new experiences, and your habits. This amazing shape-shifting ability is ...