Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...

(PeopleImages/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Research suggests you can keep your brain sharp into old age by learning languages ...

To understand why, the team looked at the MRI scans.

Stretching your brain might be the better description. Do a crossword puzzle a day, and you may just get good at crosswords. Instead, research increasingly shows that a variety of habits and hobbies ...

We often experience forgetting as a frustration, or a glitch in the memory system. But new research shows it has real value.

Scientists with Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and Arizona State University recorded, for the first time in honey bees, the dynamics of neurotransmitters as the bees ...

On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer as often as their good-at-math peers, but behind the scenes, their brains ...