When you're stressed at work, your brain doesn't want complexity; it wants a simple mental lifeline like "cognitive chunking" ...

Neuroscientists have long known that perception is not a neutral recording of the outside world but a construction, stitched together from sensory data and prior experience. What is becoming harder to ...

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The MIND diet may help protect the aging brain against structural deterioration, such as grey matter loss, a new study has ...

A diet focused on the best foods for brain health slowed aging in key parts of the brain by over 2 years, a new study found.

You look up from your phone screen and suddenly realize you weren't thinking about anything. It's not a lapse in memory or a daydream; it's literally a moment when you're not thinking of anything at ...

Where does imagination come from? A new fMRI study in Neuron reveals that mental imagery emerges from the brain's association ...

In the moments that matter most, performance depends on whether the mind is prepared to interpret that pressure correctly.

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A new study that tracked brain changes in more than 1,600 adults over 12 years found that eating may help keep the brain ...

The combined Mediterranean and blood pressure lowering diet may slow the structural changes related to brain aging, finds new ...

As adherence to the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay diet went up, total grey matter decline and ...