Babies as young as two months old are able to categorise distinct objects in their brains – much earlier than previously ...

The University of Houston convened leading scholars and researchers from across Texas for the inaugural Dementia Unlocked ...

From fostering creativity to encouraging your child's social and emotional growth, pretend play—or imaginative play—is ...

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have identified a mechanism that protects the female ...

REM sleep is important for memory consolidation, emotional regulation and brain development, so our findings suggest that ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

Long mocked as a nerdy pastime, Dungeons & Dragons is now backed by science as a tool for mental health and cognitive growth.

Nearly two years after receiving brain surgery to treat a rare fistula, Sheila Perrin of North Salem, N.Y., has decided to ...

The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

This could be pivotal to helping people of all ages.

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Researchers are exploring whether cannabinoids may help protect football players’ brains from repetitive head trauma and CTE—but current evidence is early, limited, and far from conclusive.