Take a deep breath. Now exhale slowly. You’re probably not aware of it, but your heart has just slowed down a bit. Not to worry; it will speed up again when you inhale. This regular-irregular beat is ...

Deeply entrenched conflicts are dividing the world – and many people's social circles. The violence in Israel and Gaza is triggering often overheated discussions among friends, family and strangers.

The human brain is not a passive recorder of events, it is an active simulator that constantly rehearses futures, rewrites ...

“Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain” by Lisa Feldman Barrett. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 192 pages, $24 (hardcover). “Why did a brain like yours evolve?” Lisa Feldman Barrett ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. When someone close to you develops signs of mental illness, you spring into detective mode. You ask questions, but the answers seem vague and incomplete.

Are you doing something rash and unwise? Blame your “lizard brain.” Our reptilian instincts, which date from when we were all cold-blooded creatures around 300 million years ago, supposedly guide all ...

What could be of greater value to society than gaining a practical understanding of how neural, genetic and environmental influences act together to shape children's cognitive capacity and emotional ...

A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences — finding hidden connections between different experiences — changes dramatically as we age.

Reading the amusingly informative Bill Bryson’s latest book ‘The Body: A Guide For Occupants’ has proved to be a productive and enriching way of getting through the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) lockdown ...

Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to U.S. Congress was running for president in 1972 when she had a remarkable interaction with the pro-segregation George Wallace, then governor of ...