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How Stress Can Make Therapy Sessions More Effective
Therapy is all about learning how to cope and manage difficult situations better, but sessions may not always equip patients with the practical tools they need to face challenges when they occur. In...
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NFL Settles Concussion Suit: Is It a Win For Player Health?
On Thursday, the NFL settled a lawsuit for $765 million with more than 4,500 former players over allegedly hiding known concussion risks . The money will go toward compensating players for...
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How Financial Woes Change Your Brain (And Not for the Better)
Worrying about making ends meet, it seems, can occupy enough of the brain‘s finite thinking power that it makes it difficult to think clearly. According to the latest research published in Science,...
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Teaching Old Brains New Tricks With a Videogame
If granny went up against her grandson in a video game, don’t necessarily bet against age. At least not if the game involves multi-tasking skills. In a provocative study published in the journal...
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iOS7 Making You Dizzy? Here’s Why–And a Fix
The Geniuses at Apple certainly anticipated complaints about the way iOS 7 looks and how it works, but they probably never anticipated this: some iPhone and iPad users are getting motion sickness and...
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Statin Drugs Linked to Lower Risk of Cognitive Decline
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns that the popular cholesterol-lowering medications may cause memory loss and confusion, but long term use of the medications may reduce that risk. In a...
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Finally, a Way to Read Minds
For now, the technique applies to quantitative thinking (doing math problems and calculating numbers) but the process could launch ways of reading other types of thoughts as well. The new research,...
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Poverty Produces Smaller Brains
The rich really are different, at least when it comes to their brains. In two separate studies, researchers found that experiencing poverty in early childhood is linked to smaller brain size and less...
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New Imaging Device Gives Insights Into Hearing
A new brain imaging machine, unveiled at an Australian university on Tuesday, will help scientists better understand how the brain processes information from hearing devices. It’s the first time...
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Drumroll, Please: How Band Camp Pays Off Later in Life
If you gave up the clarinet in grade school, don’t worry. Those precious years of musical training still did your brain a favor. Brains change with age, and these changes can sometimes interfere with...
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Exercise During Pregnancy May Boost Babies’ Brain Activity
Being pregnant and carrying extra pounds is the perfect excuse to slack off on the workout, right? Not if you want a smart child, says a new study. By sticking 124 electrodes on the heads of days-old...
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Bringing Back the Unconscious: The Latest Science on Awakenings
Hundreds of thousands of patients in the U.S. languish in unconsciousness, cut off from the world by severe brain injuries. But the latest research hints that some of them may still retain reserves of...
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Why Men and Women’s Brains Work Differently: It’s All About the Wiring
The latest imaging data reveals gender-based differences in the way brain networks are connected. The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, included nearly...
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Need Some Resilience? A Few Zaps of Electricity Might Help
Fighting spirit, grit, heart: researchers say that they may all be within our reach with just a zap of electricity to a specific spot in the brain. So far, however, the electrical stimulation is too...
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Do, Re, Mi, Fa-get the Piano Lessons: Music May Not Make You Smarter
Music can soothe the soul and speed along creativity, but it won’t, according to researchers from Harvard, boost intelligence. “More than 80 percent of American adults think that music improves...
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Why Girls’ Brains Mature Faster Than Boys’ Brains
It’s always been conventional wisdom that girls reach maturity more quickly than boys, but now scientists have provided some proof. In new research published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, an...
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Viewpoint: Why Brain Death Isn’t An On-Off Switch
Thirteen-year-old Jahi McMath was declared brain dead after complications arising from a tonsillectomy, raising new questions about how we define brain death, and whether it’s time to revise our...
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Why Quick-Moving Eyes Are a Giveaway That You’re Less Likely to Wait in Line
People who have fast eye movements tend to be less patient and are more prone to making quick decisions, according to a recent study. That’s what researchers from Johns Hopkins University found while...
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Scientists Map What Your Brain Looks Like on English
Ever wonder how your brain distinguishes all the sounds in a language? How does it know “b” is different from “z”? Researchers may now be closer to understanding how the brain processes sounds, or at...
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The Pesticide on Your Fruit May Lead to Parkinson’s
Following a study that showed that the banned chemical DDT was linked to a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, new research out this week shows that pesticides are associated with the...
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