Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and ...

Weekend warriors — individuals who get most of their physical activity over one or two days in a week — gain similar brain health benefits as those who exercise more regularly. According to a new ...

Rebecca Ramirez (she/her) is the founding producer of NPR's science podcast, Short Wave. It's a meditation in how to be a Swiss Army Knife, in that it involves a little of everything — background ...

Researchers have mapped the brain volumes of people with common mental illnesses and found that despite individual differences between people with the same diagnosis, common, connected brain areas are ...

Your brain doesn’t work the same when you speak to someone on Zoom, scientists have confirmed. Neural signalling is significantly less when chatting to someone through a video call rather than having ...

Six years after Kelly Stafford underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor, she says her cousin is dealing with the same illness. “The cousin I was closest to growing up had the exact same brain tumor I ...

Imagine you are in a soccer match, and it’s tied. Each team will begin taking penalty kicks. The crowd is roaring, and whether or not your team wins the game depends on your ability to hit the shot.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Whenever you’re actively performing a task—say, lifting weights at the gym or taking a hard exam—the parts of your brain required to ...

PORTSMOUTH — No Brain Is The Same, a newly established 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is on a mission to bridge the gap in understanding between neurodivergent and neurotypical individuals. Through ...

NEWTON, Mass. (WBZ) - An investigation is underway at a Boston-area hospital after several nurses have developed brain tumors. “You’re going into work every day with that feeling in your gut, and it’s ...

Japanese boxers Shigetoshi Kotari and Kiromasa Urakawa have died from brain injuries they each sustained while competing at the same event, though in different fights, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on Aug ...

Share on Pinterest Weekend warriors gain similar brain health benefits as those who exercise more regularly, including a reduced risk of dementia. SolStock/Getty Images Weekend warriors — individuals ...