Neuroscience

Maintaining physical health brings a variety of benefits - including for the brain. A new study affirms that but also finds that lower IQ in teen years is correlated to a higher risk of dementia…

People born unable to see are readily capable of learning to perceive the shape of the human body through soundscapes that translate images into sound, according to a new article in Current Biology.…

At age 6, Mozart performed at the court of the Prince-elect Maximilian II of Bavaria. At age 8, Joy Foster represented Jamaica in table tennis at the Caribbean championships in Trinidad. What do…

There is a growing need for Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT) due to  athletes with sports-related head injuries, a growing population with age-related cognitive decline and soldiers…

Our brains may not be optimized for recalling things we hear, the way we are good at remembering things we see or touch. Psychologists doing a study of over 100 University of Iowa college…

David Perlmutter, MD, became well-known last year as the best-selling author of Grain Brain, which demonizes wheat (and, of course, gluten) and he recently claimed that simple dietary changes would…

Jazz musicians do a lot of spontaneous, improvisational music and brains scans show robust activation of brain areas traditionally associated with spoken language and syntax, which are used to…

Some people don't remember dreams at all while some remember them frequently. What separates them? Images in brain scans, at least, though that may lead to a more meaningful answer also.  A…

The anterior insula region deep inside the brain controls how quickly people make decisions about love, according to a new paper. The finding, made in an examination of a 48-year-old man who suffered…

Everyone feels neuroscience studies are biased, no matter how representative they try to be. But Roel Willems and colleagues from the  Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at…