Physical activity, thinking skills, and emotional regulation are evolutionarily intertwined, yet an "evolutionary bug" makes us lazy. Explore the links and learn how to fight back.

I’m a bioacoustics researcher. This is what babies’ cries really tell us - Many parents feel immense pressure to become ‘cry ...

A TED Talk-style presentation on the effects of tangled DNA strands took first place at this year's Postdoc Slam competition, which is held in celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week.

Researchers studying fruit flies discovered that nerve cells sensing limb motion are turned off when the insect moves, allowing the brain to switch between stabilizing posture and enabling dynamic ...

The latest study assessed the brain health impacts of such plastic toxins that cross the blood-brain barrier. It found that ...

A team, led by researchers at Penn State, received a $3.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study brain patterns in children with ADHD and serious behavior problems in ...

The Gateway Process was originally the brainchild of radio producer Robert Monroe, who in the 1970s studied the effects of certain sound patterns on human consciousness. He claimed that his ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

At first, no one recognized Zohny Zohny in his surgical mask. Then he told the surgical team he was the neurosurgeon assigned ...

What happens when you listen to speech at a different speed? Neuroscientists thought that your brain may turn up its ...

People with temporal lobe epilepsy in particular often wander around aimlessly and unconsciously after a seizure. Researchers ...

A slew of new research attempts to zero in on what happens as our brains get older — and what can bring about those changes early.