After a long day at work, it’s easier to flop on the couch than hit the gym. Scrolling over social media wins over reading a book. Our exhausted brains favour easier tasks, even if — according to a ...

As we live longer, maintaining brain health is becoming increasingly important. However, people of all ages can benefit from adding simple brain exercises to their daily routine to boost memory, focus ...

A new paper offers a broad challenge to a certain kind of ‘grand theory’ about the brain. According to the authors, Federico E. Turkheimer and colleagues, it is problematic to build models of brain ...

When we consider automatic behaviors, digestion, blood circulation, and breathing are often mentioned. But what about making a grilled cheese sandwich or shaving? Are they in any way automatic? Yes, ...

The hippocampus is a small but powerful part of the brain that plays an important role in memory and learning. It helps store short-term experiences and turn them into long-term memories. Scientists ...

How a person’s brain grows and makes connections can determine intelligence as well as susceptibility to disorders such as epilepsy and mental illness. However, a lot of questions remain about how the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly helping scientists to write papers, conduct literature reviews and even design laboratory experiments. Now researchers can add optimizing quantum ...

New USC research offers an unseen insight into how the brain shifts gears. The researchers have discovered that our innate ability to make quick changes in motor function is the result of a unique ...

How do we think, feel, remember, or move? It all depends on transmission of chemical signals in the brain, carried and released by molecular containers called vesicles. In a new study, researchers ...

Whenever something bad happens to us, brain systems responsible for mediating emotions kick in to prevent it from happening again. When we get stung by a wasp, the association between pain and wasps ...