Neuroscience research uncovers a new type of emotional intelligence.

AlterEgo could help people with communication or memory problems by broadcasting internal monologues

Being socially active in 50s and 60s linked to lower risk of illness later in life, researchers say

Our brains are perhaps the final privacy frontier.

A long-standing mystery about early cells has a solution—and it’s a rather magical one.

'For one of my patients it wasn't just life changing, it was life saving. He had decided he was going to check out... now he is back at work and taking his child to the movies'

Weber’s law is the most firmly established rule of psychophysics — the science that relates the strength of physical stimuli to the sensations of the mind.

The “stereotype threat” is a "real threat of judgment or treatment in the person’s environment that went beyond any limitations within," says Claude Steele.

The brains of murderers look different from those of people convicted of other crimes—differences that could be linked to how they process empathy and morality.

Hearing a recording of one’s own voice can be a cringe-worthy experience. Scientists took advantage of that uncomfortable truth in recent research in the journal Current Biology, turning up the notch with a karaoke experiment. The goal was to ignite feelings of embarrassment and shame — all in the good name of helpful sleep science.

It’s April 2019 at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington. In a room containing five transmission electron microscopes, three shiny party balloons are bobbing around. The balloons are to celebrate the institute’s researchers reaching the latest milestone in an effort to map each of the 100,000 neurons and the one billion connections, or synapses, between them in a cubic millimetre of mouse brain — a sample that’s roughly the size of a grain of sand.

New research provides evidence that a mindfulness-based app can help people stop smoking -- and it appears to help by reducing brain reactivity to smoking ...

A research team at the University of California, Riverside, has found that electronic cigarettes, often targeted to youth and pregnant women, produce a stress response in neural stem cells, which are critical cells in the brain. Present throughout life, stem cells become specialized cells with more specific functions, such as brain cells, blood cells, or bone. Far more sensitive to stress than the specialized cells they become, stem cells provide a model to study exposure to toxicants, such as cigarette smoke. 

In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die.

In a search for clues to what may delay or prevent Alzheimer’s disease, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report that smarter, more educated people aren’t protected from the disease, but do get a cognitive “head start” that may keep their minds functioning better temporarily.

Is your tax return still not finished and cleaning the house has been put off until next week? Your genes could be to blame. At least for women.

The strange technique holds great therapeutic potential.

Summary: Researchers argue humans did not evolve to be consistently happy but primarily survive and reproduce.

An experimental drug that muffles the activity of neurons in the skin moderates heightened reactions to touch in six mouse models of autism.

Research on lucid dreams is still in its infancy, but some induction techniques already hold real promise - and most can be tried in the comfort of your own bedroom. By Achilleas Pavlou.