When it comes to brain health, some things are out of your control. Age is the biggest risk factor for developing dementia, according to the World Health Organization, but others such as genetics ...

Bystander CPR Up to 10 Minutes After Cardiac Arrest May Protect Brain Function Nov. 11, 2024 — The sooner a lay rescuer (bystander) starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a person having ...

Being bullied when young is associated with widespread changes in the adolescent brain, which may influence future mental health, according to the largest brain scanning study of its kind.

“It took an eternity until mathematicians finally invented zero as a number.” Perhaps that’s no surprise given that the concept can be difficult for the brain to grasp. It takes children longer to ...

Zero’s latest surprise may be in just how well the brain learns to handle that abstraction. Now studies show that the concept of zero is processed in similar ways to many numbers and can be ...

According to a survey published in March, 87% of Americans are concerned about age-related memory loss and a decline in brain function as they grow older, yet only 32% believe they can take action ...

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 ...

A remote clinical trial involving more than 150 people has shown that an experimental treatment for depression — which uses a swimming-cap-like device to gently stimulate the brain — can be ...

The Whip-Poor-Will’s shrill, death-proclaiming song populates the works of Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft. But the bird itself has fallen on hard times. Could it become a ghost of Halloweens past?

Nov. 13, 2024 — Researchers have developed an AI powered model that -- in 10 seconds -- can determine during surgery if any part of a cancerous brain tumor that ...

Mindfulness has become quite the rage of late, particularly within the helping and healing professions. Since it was introduced in the West by Jon Kabbat-Zin almost 30 years ago as a means for ...