Driving to work is routine, you might even forget you are doing it, but how aware would you be if you had to doit in reverse? We're used to seeing objects pass behind us as we go forward. Moving…

As baby boomers, originally the children born in 1946, after soldiers returned home from World War II in 1945 but later extended out to be an entire generation, move into old age, the financial…

Though marijuana use has gone up sharply since 2007, claims about its lack of harm compared to cigarettes or drugs are not based on evidence. Instead, studies have shown abnormalities in brain…

Patients with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, have difficulty with action verbs: Why action verbs and not regular verbs or nouns?  According to some…

An experiment with 42 people under functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) found that if people see pictures of others being loved and cared for, it subsequently reduces the brain's threat…

vivaviena, CC BY-NC-SA By Vincent F Hendricks, University of Copenhagen Science, like any other field that attracts investment, is prone to bubbles. Overly optimistic investments in scientific…

Our brains make judgments about images before we're even aware of making a decision. A Health Blog/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Daniel Bennett, University of Melbourne What makes us decide? At one level, this…

When it comes to our senses, there is a lot of diversity in people. One person might have 10X the taste buds on their tongue as another person, for example, so they are more sensitive to bitters and…

In what they are terming the largest MRI study to date, a group of researchers writing in Cerebral Cortex have found that the brain anatomy in MRI scans of people with autism above age six is…

Children and adults alike are digging out those spooky costumes ready for a celebration. We’ve reached that time of year again: Halloween. October 31 is dedicated to remembering the dead. We’ve all…