Choose one of these five habits—maybe start with adding a handful of walnuts to your breakfast or taking a brisk 15-minute ...

You’ve probably felt it before: that euphoric feeling after biting into one of your favorite foods. Your eyes roll back, you ...

Scientists found that soccer fans’ emotional highs and lows activate specific brain circuits tied to reward and control.

New research in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise suggests exercise may be one way to boost that self-control.

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist, I am always looking for the biological underpinnings of mental processes—not as an effort to distill mystery into molecules, but to ...

For Martin Schrimpf, the promise of artificial intelligence is not in the tasks it can accomplish. It’s in what AI might reveal about human intelligence. He is working to build a “digital twin” of the ...

In a fast-paced digital world, always-on notifications and multitasking often result in what’s been described as ‘popcorn brain’. This creates a state of restlessness and mental distraction. Discover ...

Your brain’s “emergency brake” goes quiet during rival defeats. Highly engaged fans showed reduced activity in the brain region that normally keeps aggressive impulses in check, potentially explaining ...

An easy way to lower blood pressure is to do aerobic exercises, such as walking. Following good walking form by standing tall with your shoulders back and swinging your arms and practicing conscious ...

Social media exploits our brain’s responsiveness to reward and social cues — enforcing the narrow beauty ideals we ...

Oral contraceptives have been effectively preventing pregnancy for more than 65 years, but it has only been in the past 10 that scientists – many of them women – have started to seriously examine what ...