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How to Change Your Mind: The Marvelous, Adaptable Brain
Our drive to create makes us unique among living things. What is special about the human brain that enables us to innovate? Why don’t cows choreograph dances? Why don’t alliga...
Whether they remain free of diagnosable disease or become afflicted by dementia, our brains inevitably change as we grow older. Our cells degenerate, we forget names, and we t...
Recent scientific evidence has confirmed significant links between lifestyle habits and cognitive health, but the many reports are often confusing, and sometimes contradictory...
Breakthrough research has revealed that the brain is especially open to change during specific periods in life – notably infancy and childhood, adolescence, and the transition...
We live in a world unimaginable only decades ago: a domain of backlit screens, instant information, and vibrant experiences that can out-compete dreary reality. Our cutting-ed...
Whether you get dementia, Alzheimer’s or another brain disease, the fact is we’re living longer and our brains change. What are the changes and how should we be dealing with t...
A microchip is an integrated circuit. What do you call a microchip integrated into the circuit of our brains? The answer is Dr. Theodore Berger’s research. It is not science f...
Nancy Andreasen is a leading neuroscientist and psychiatrist at the University of Iowa whose fascinating research into the creative mind has been informed in part by the strea...