From Edison to Taylor Swift, the brain is a living phonograph—recording and replaying the grooves of memory, culture, and identity.

Some books don’t just change your thoughts, they rewire the circuitry behind them. These are the literary equivalents of serotonin and starlight: part therapy, part philosophy, part silent revolution.

Spirituality may have evolved during the Paleolithic from a brain circuit that was originally involved in the control of fear, pain, and altruism.

Have you ever gotten a flash of a different route you could have taken while stuck in traffic? This isn't just a fleeting thought, but rather a fundamental neurological process, according to findings ...

Scientists at Skoltech developed a new mathematical model of memory that explores how information is encoded and stored. Their analysis suggests that memory works best in a seven-dimensional ...

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, Ph.D., and Travis E. Faust, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, explains how two different cell types in the brain—astrocytes and microglia—communicate in response to ...

Déjà vu—the eerie feeling that a new moment has happened before—has puzzled scientists and philosophers for centuries.

Children with OCD may experience symptoms like excessive fears about getting sick, extreme disgust over bodily waste, and an obsession with symmetry.

Cognitive shuffling is essentially distracting yourself from the chatter by "switching from deep thinking to random thinking," Sara Benjamin, MD, medical director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders ...

Sisters Loved and Cherished', a new book by Deborah Roberts, celebrates sisterhood with 50 stories from the Strahans, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and more ...

Researchers have developed AI-generated “visual anagrams” — images that transform into entirely new objects when rotated — to explore how the brain processes perception.