Why we like Christmas music depends on psychology. Familiarity breeds comfort until it doesn't. Here's why Mariah Carey still ...

Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been diagnosed from the outside in, through behavior, mood, and memory ...

Since combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are a class of non-deterministic polynomial-time (NP)-hard problems, it is impracticable to solve them in brute-force searches, which results in high ...

A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power ...

The claim that the brain, and particularly the frontal lobe, finishes developing at 25 is far less solid than social media ...

Memories and learning processes are based on changes in the brain's neuronal connections, and as a result, in signal ...

Rabbi Bruce D. Forman writes “when approached thoughtfully, Christmas can function as a once-a-year invitation for Jews to rest, reset, soften our emotional guard, and rediscover our own ...

Loss and grief can cause cloudy thinking, intrusive images, or problems with attention and memory. If a loved one is now unreachable, our memory system needs time to adjust to this new reality. When ...

Why does stopping at a red light become automatic? New neuroscience shows how the cerebellum turns visual cues into fast, ...

“These findings suggest that when it comes to brain health not all dairy is equal,” Sonestedt said. “While eating more high-fat cheese and cream was linked to a reduced risk of dementia, other dairy ...

After mass violence such as the Bondi beach terrorist attack on Sunday, distress does not stop with those directly affected.