-
There’s a lot of advice out there about how to be happy – websites, videos, newsletters – and many pedal a recipe for happiness backed by science.But…
-
We’ve all heard that the best time to learn a new language is when you’re a young child; think pre-school or elementary school. But a recent study by…
-
It’s May, nice weather is finally here, and some of you are thinking about what your teenager will do when school gets out. We’ve got somebody who can…
-
Most brain scientists will never know what it feels like to live with the mental illnesses they study. Barbara Lipska is the exception; brain tumors…
-
There are scientists studying how spending time in nature restores us physically and mentally.A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Utah noticed…
-
Alzheimer’s disease affects an estimated 50 million people worldwide, yet there are only a handful of drugs to treat the symptoms. None of them address…
-
More than 60,000 patients in the U.S. receive general anesthesia every day. But despite the fact that anaesthesia drugs, like ether, have been around for…
-
Patients in a persistent vegetative state may not be as unaware as their diagnosis suggests. Neuroscientists have found that 15-20 percent may be fully…
-
There are tens of thousands of people in the United States who have been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state – unresponsive and unaware of their…
-
How many times have you been in a conversation and found yourself trying to figure out what the other person is thinking? It’s quintessentially human, but…