Nothing teaches us how the brain works like neurosurgery, maintains Theodore Schwartz, MD, of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. "We tend to think about neuroscientists, neurologists, and ...

If you read popular science books about the brain, you might have encountered a new “grand theory” called predictive processing. If you haven’t yet, you will. Over the last two decades, it has gone ...

Most children in elementary school begin learning about the body and how it works; however, research reveals that parents and teachers tend to leave out information about the brain. In fact, one study ...

Cognitive functioning affects how people think and their ability to remember things. Impairment in this area of brain health may cause a decline in how someone responds to their environment mentally ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

For decades, the idea that creativity comes from the right side of the brain has dominated popular culture. People have been told they're either "right-brained" (creative, intuitive) or "left-brained" ...