Handwriting engages motor, language, and attention systems, activating the brain more fully than typing. Writing by hand ...

Debunk myths about left brain and right brain thinking.

A new study published in J Neuroscience suggests that adults with ADHD tend to experience sleep-like brain activity even while they are fully awake. Here are why these findings matter and what you ...

A hidden molecular chain reaction in the brain may push key cellular systems into overdrive in autism—and scientists just found a way to switch it off.

It is well established in psychology that humans conceptualize emotions by features known as valence (the degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness) and arousal (the intensity of bodily reactions, such ...

Neuroscientist Soha Farboud of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has succeeded in adjusting activity in specific brain areas using a new technique. With ultrasonic brain stimulation, she was ...

A Dutch psychiatrist gave lethal injections to patients with mental suffering, some of them teenagers. Does that make him a hero—or something else?

Chase Elliott played it smart during last Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas. Within moments of seeing the tire come off Ross Chastain’s No. 1 car just ahead of him, Elliott ...

In parks, supermarkets, public transport vehicles, and elsewhere, families have to navigate a range of obstacles, from poor design to hostile behaviour.

Reaction time reflects brain processing speed; simple tests like the ruler drop can reveal attention, coordination, and early cognitive changes.

Why don't some people practice what they preach? Researchers reveal that a brain region called the ventromedial prefrontal ...

Most people are right-handed, but 10.6 percent are left-handed. There is a long-standing debate on why this specific 90-to-10 pattern between right-handedness and left-handedness has been pretty much ...