Neuroscience shows traditional teaching is not enough. Instead, an experiential approach can return learning to its natural ...

Daydream Believer: an MRI scan of the brain at rest. Regions in yellow are strongly linked to the area indicated by the blue spot. Image caption, A Little Bit Me: composite of the scans of 20 ...

The genetic make-up of our brain cells changes thousands of times over the course of our lifetimes, according to new research. Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh have identified genes, ...

A brain scan of an adult who had an entire hemisphere removed as a child to treat epilepsy.Credit: Caltech Brain Imaging Center In severe cases of epilepsy, a patient’s seizures can become so ...

Meditation is more than just a way to calm our thoughts and lower stress levels: our brain processes more thoughts and feelings during meditation than when you are simply relaxing, a coalition of ...

‘Your brain is playing tricks on you,’ says neuroscientist and psychologist Albert Moukheiber. In this week’s episode of our mental health podcast, Mentally Yours, Albert tells us how our brain ...

One of the most important parts of the brain is the “executive centre”, right at the front. It’s the area that gathers information in order to make effective decisions, and to plan. It’s fiendishly ...

At the very beginning of her new book Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett writes that each chapter will present “a few compelling scientific nuggets ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Why understanding how a child's brain works at different ages is so important A little understanding of how a child’s brain works at different ages can go a long way in helping a parent cope Jenna ...

As a parent, a spouse, and someone who works full time at my job and pretty much full time at keeping a household running, I often feel like I have 20 tabs open in my brain at once. There are always ...