Looking after our brain health is as important as taking care of our body. Dr Manan Vora recommended taking a quick 10-second ...

Every November, Black Friday arrives with big claims of massive savings and “one-day-only” deals. We are bombarded with offers that seem too good to pass up. But beneath all this lies something far ...

When I taught “Introduction to Psychology,” we covered four main goals of psychology: to describe, explain, predict, and control behavior (Coon, Mitterer, 2013). The idea of control is ultimately self ...

We’ve heard about how people are affected by bullies and misleading information on the internet, but what many of us have not heard are about the shocking effects on your physical and mental brain.

Did you make any resolutions this new year? If you did, are you keeping to them? Well done if you are. Polling in America suggests half of new-year resolvers give up by the end of March. More rigorous ...

Matt just broke up with his partner, and he can’t stop thinking about what went wrong in the relationship. Alex has an extensive interview coming up, and she’s obsessing and can’t sleep. Morgan’s ...

In today’s hyperconnected world, checking your phone has become a reflex, almost like breathing. Every ping, vibration, or notification triggers an urge to reach for the screen, even when there’s no ...

Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise. Owen Collumb, a Cybathlon race pilot who has been ...

There might be a paradox in the biology of ageing. As humans grow older, their metabolisms tend to slow, they lose muscle mass and they burn many fewer calories. But certain cells in older people ...

Hold the morning coffee and meditation: for about 75 days over the span of a year, neuroscientist Carina Heller’s morning ritual included climbing into her university’s brain scanner at 7:30 a.m. and ...

If you plan to indulge this holiday season, there are strategies that could be helpful for you in the new year.

Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm that receives signals from his brain via a computer. He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by ...