20+ min ago  (202+ words) You don't have to throw your smartphone in the ocean to fix this. Start by introducing "slow" moments into your day. Put the phone in another room while you eat or try reading a physical book for just twenty minutes…...

52+ min ago  (902+ words) Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human, leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge if a cantaloupe is ripe. New research from Northwestern…...

11+ hour, 30+ min ago  (228+ words) A study led by Professor Ryuta Kawashima suggests that driving a manual transmission car is beneficial for the brain, and could help prevent dementia. Kawashima is a neuroscientist known for the Brain Age and Dr Kawashima's Brain Training games, released…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago  (787+ words) One of the biggest unanswered questions in Alzheimer's research is why the disease affects people so differently. While many develop memory loss and dementia as Alzheimer's progresses, others show little or no cognitive decline despite having the same underlying brain…...

7+ hour, 32+ min ago  (884+ words) It is easy to call that mysterious, even mystical. I do not think it is either. I think it is better understood as a change in access: something already in motion becomes visible to consciousness. The brain may have been…...

18+ hour, 36+ min ago  (257+ words) Professional visual artists have distinctive patterns of brain structure and activity that appear to support the vivid mental imagery needed for creating art, according to a study published in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. To address this gap,…...

4+ hour, 24+ min ago  (1200+ words) New study argues dominant-hand skill is built through tool use and practice, not born as an innate motor advantage. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) Most people can feel the gap without thinking about it. One hand writes neatly, throws cleanly, and…...

3+ hour, 40+ min ago  (721+ words) People may not walk in perfectly straight lines after all. A new study published in Nature Communications has found that humans have a measurable tendency to drift anticlockwise, or slightly to the left, while walking through open spaces. Researchers say…...

8+ hour, 49+ min ago  (379+ words) Neuro Life has launched as a non-invasive neurotechnology company developing wearable rehabilitation solutions for people recovering from stroke and spinal cord injury, alongside the completion of a $2. 9 million seed funding round backed by founding partners Battelle and The Neuro Tech…...

4+ hour, 6+ min ago  (497+ words) Approximately 55 million individuals are living with the disease across the globe. Japanese scientists are quietly determining how our diets influence the human brain. In a study conducted at Hirosaki University under the watchful eye of Haruka Nagaya, and newly published…...