Helping others for just a few hours a week could slow memory loss and help ward off dementia, a major new study suggests.

For many people, grit – the perseverance and passion for long-term goals – is a virtue. It is also a key ingredient in ...

For years, the debate over teens and screens has been defined by uncertainty. Parents, teachers, doctors and policymakers have argued over whether phones and social media were truly harming young ...

For more than 100 years, Alzheimer’s disease has been treated as a one‑way descent, a diagnosis that could be delayed at best but never truly undone. Now a new wave of research in animals is ...

You’re not bad at making decisions. You’re overwhelmed by noise. This piece shows why high achievers second-guess themselves ...

Even more exciting, they found that treating the liver—not the brain—can reverse these problems. Their study, published in ...

Simple daily practices can actually increase gray matter density and create new neural pathways, even into older age.

Emotions are constructed, not discovered. Relational safety—not precise labels—allows the brain to tolerate uncertainty, ...