Your brain is not trying to sabotage you. It is trying to protect what it already knows. Learn how to teach it a better ...

Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology, which recognizes novel technologies that have improved human health. The prize was ...

Recently, it was announced that Dr. Michael Merzenich is a recipient of the Merkin Prize, awarded to innovators of breakthroughs that have demonstrably improved human health.

The human brain does not always wait for something to actually happen before it begins preparing for it. Two studies, ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the brain developed during childhood, settled into a stable form in early ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.

For centuries, people have turned to prayer for comfort, guidance, healing, and connection with God. While prayer has long ...

A new study isolates the MCA brain nucleus as the central timing hub that calibrates sensory predictions across changing bodies.

Researchers constructed a brain growth charts from 54,000+ diffusion MRI scans to map individual white matter health.

We used to think that the brain, once damaged, could not repair itself. Breakthroughs in neuroscience have shown that this is not true. Though individual neurons might be damaged beyond repair, the ...