From work meetings to first dates, it's essential to adjust our behavior for success. In certain situations, it can even be a ...

From work meetings to first dates, it’s essential to adjust our behavior for success. In certain situations, it can even be a ...

From work meetings to first dates, it's essential to adjust our behavior for success. In certain situations, it can even be a matter of life or death ...

Anxiety disorders affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, yet for many, the condition still feels like a mysterious fault line running through their lives. A growing body of research is now ...

One of those nutrients in yolk, choline, is most fascinating to brain researchers. In a new study published in the journal Aging and Disease, scientists found lower levels of choline—a nutrient in the ...

Nootropics have exploded from niche biohacker forums into mainstream conversations about focus, productivity, and mental ...

The cerebellum (which is Latin for ‘little brain’) is the area of the brain in charge of fine motor coordination and balance, and it keeps our movements smooth and stable by predicting what our next ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some psychiatric disorders. By Carl Zimmer Last year, Ardem Patapoutian got a ...

A generation growing up with algorithmic feeds is not suffering “brain damage,” but their attention, emotions and habits are being shaped in powerful ways. For many families, the first smartphone or ...

Before a car crash in 2008 left her paralysed from the neck down, Nancy Smith enjoyed playing the piano. Years later, Smith started making music again, thanks to an implant that recorded and analysed ...

In 1943, biochemist Albert Hoffman accidentally ingested a chemical that he had synthesized from a fungus and discovered that it created hallucinations. The mind-bending chemical was lysergic acid ...