Split image: Left side shows a brain wearing headphones surrounded by colorful musical notes. Right side is an illustration of a person standing at a ship’s wheel on top of a brain, looking through a ...

Heads up: A lot of what you think you know about your brain is wrong. From sleep scams to multitasking myths, bad advice is steering Americans off course — and it’s messing with their minds. To cut ...

Popular culture abounds with “facts” about the brain, such as we only use 10 percent of it (false); it weighs three pounds (true); it consumes as much energy as a 20 Watt light bulb (true); it shrinks ...

Your brain isn’t built for long-term career thinking. Psychology explains why your plans derail and how to work with your mind instead of against it. Long-term career planning is probably the most ...

Facts and data are essential for understanding the world, yet they rarely capture attention on their own. When the same information is presented within a story, it suddenly becomes more engaging and ...

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 ...

Last week Dr. C. Judson Herrick, University of Chicago neurologist, issued statements anent the brain. There are 9,200,000,000 cells in the human cortex. In the process of thought one of these cells ...

It's a myth that we use only 10% of our brains. However, you're not alone in buying into this. A survey done about 10 years ago found that almost two-thirds of Americans shared this misconception.

About a year ago, Sweden took a great leap forward by taking a giant step backward: Its education system formally rebalanced the use of digital tools and traditional teaching strategies by embracing ...

Cancer tumors hijack the vagus nerve to communicate with the brain, triggering a hormonal response that suppresses the immune system.