Repeated in pop culture for a century, the notion that humans only use 10 percent of our brains is false. Scans have shown that much of the brain is engaged even during simple tasks. Allen Bell / ...

In the early 2000s, a major women's health study—Women's Health Initiative (WHI)—made headlines. As an ongoing study launched in the '90s, the WHI asked: could menopause hormone therapy (MHT), used to ...

One of the most enduring myths in pop psychology is that humans use only 10 percent of their brains. This notion, repeated in movies, motivational speeches, and even some classrooms, implies that a ...

For over a decade, a single number haunted personal finance conversations, career decisions, and therapy sessions across ...

Prediabetes is a condition where blood-sugar levels are higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as full-fledged diabetes. It’s estimated that 1 in 3 American adults has prediabetes ...

Pregnancy brain, often called “mum brain” or “momnesia”, refers to the common experience of mild cognitive changes such as forgetfulness, difficulty concentrating and mental fog during and shortly ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...