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Consider stress junk food for your brain, while meditation is the gym that can repair and reshape you after years of a bad brain diet.

Imagined memory palaces are still used by memory champions and the few who practice the memory arts, but they are best known from Greco-Roman times.

Now, you can add chanting to your brain training regimen.

Some say that great ideas come out of thin air. Neuroscientist David Eagleman posits that perhaps all great ideas are simply built upon old ideas, because thats what fuels the creative brain.

There are a lot of aspects to leaving an “anatomical gift” which one might find surprising.

The Germans have a lovely saying for the benefits of keeping an idle mind: ‘die Seele baumeln lassen’, meaning ‘let the soul dangle’.    

Cute things are usually vulnerable, fragile, and weak. But cuteness itself is mighty indeed.  

Here’s why your brain’s biases are a win for fake news, and a pay day for Facebook.

First, let me tell you how smart I am. So smart. My fifth-grade teacher said I was gifted in mathematics and, looking back, I have to admit that she was […]

The case of a 7-year-old Australian boy who was supposed to lose sight at two weeks old but can still see has stunned scientists.

Research points to many social-cognitive, emotional, behavioral and biological benefits that marriage seems to bestow on its participants.

A new study shows that “magical thinking” can be reduced by presenting and processing information in a second language.

Here are four great brains from great minds, and how they differ from yours.  

Everyone thinks they know how to make their brain more creative and have better ideas.

Scientists didn’t know why the sleep deprived experienced cognitive lapses, until now.

A new study explains why some people seem to be better than others at ridding their minds of intrusive thoughts.

The idea is just as ‘crazy’ as Einstein telling us that time slows down at high speeds, or Darwin saying that our ancestors were apes.    

Since hope appears to come from a physical place in the brain, scientists are hoping to figure out how it shields the rest of the brain from negativity. Really. 

A new study overturns the conventional thinking about how we focus our visual attention.

Meditation is a lot more than just chilling out and reflecting. It can actually rewire your brain to become a better person.

Get lost in a good book. Time and again, reading has been shown to make us healthier, smarter, and more empathic.

Molecular biologists are hopeful about the results, but a long road lies ahead—so far this diet has only worked proven wonders on mice.

There are four main stages. Each has its own particular set of advancements and challenges.   

Your mind doesn’t run parallel tasks, it has to trade off one focus for another. The good news is that mindfulness meditation can hone your attention span, and reduce stress and anxiety.

What’s the best way to learn something new? Embrace your inner imposter, and don’t worry about speed—here’s why.

A new study finds that cognitive functioning of women is affected by gender-role attitudes within their country.

Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal discusses a three-step process to shift your mindset when anxiety creeps in.

Here’s why you should try to fit less—not more—into each day.

There are three types of intelligence that are necessary for success in life, says the noted psychologist Robert Sternberg.

Groundbreaking research finds that the human brain creates multi-dimensional neural structures.