The biological weakening of decision-making areas in the brain suggests why addicts pursue and consume drugs even in the face of negative consequences or the knowledge of positive outcomes that ...

In this video, the possibilities of an artificial chemical brain take centre stage. It starts with chemical reactions, including a fascinating luminol-based clock reaction that acts as a timer.

Many parents give their toddlers a smartphone or tablet. Is this a total disaster or can children adapt to the new media? For ...

8. Outdoors. Green time offsets screen time. Brain scans of people who spend time in nature show that their prefrontal cortex has more gray matter and a stronger ability to think clearly and self ...

“There are often also corresponding effects on the brain such as reduced gray matter and white matter, leading to impaired processing capacity and efficiency.” One reason brain rot can be such ...

Study Helps Solve Mystery Between Repeated Head Impacts in Sports and Location of Brain Degeneration in CTE ... might be a case of 'mind over matter', new research has shown.

As of December 2024, scientific research continues to support the effectiveness of face masks. Wearing masks remains a crucial public health measure going into 2025, particularly in reducing the ...

Compared with healthy individuals, those with major depressive disorder had lower cognitive performance and more depressive episodes. Alterations of white matter in the brain occur to a larger ...

Just 1.5 to 5 millimeters in width, it is composed of the neurons that make up the brain’s “gray matter” and handles much of the brain’s work. (The gray matter of the cortex is interlinked ...

But what about the brain? “From a neuroscientist’s perspective ... But the kind of fats you eat matter. For instance, one type of omega-3 fat known as DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) is extremely ...

Increasing one’s vocabulary range is a great way to broaden knowledge while exercising the brain. A 2007 review suggests that enhancing vocabulary can lead to increased gray matter density ...