Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making—is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...

Age is more than just one number. While neuroscientists used to think of cognitive aging as a single trendline, they now ...

It’s true that the brain slows down as we age, but that’s normal—and all of us can practice some simple strategies to ...

Teachers can use these research-based cognitive and behavioral cues to help students feel capable, focused, and ready to work ...

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies on symptom checklists that were never designed to reflect biology. A peer-reviewed invited review published in Brain Medicine now synthesizes recent advances across ...

Lou Edward Matthews is founder of the InspireMath, and focuses on STEM learning, teaching, and leadership: Culturally responsive teaching prioritizes academic success, intellectual and cultural rigor, ...

This article explores how multiomics integration, imaging, and bioinformatics are advancing biomarker discovery, revealing ...

Just as calculators once were banned from classrooms, and later embraced, AI technology is finding greater acceptance among ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable tool in Estonian hospitals, aiding both stroke and radiation therapy treatment while saving doctors hours of valuable time. At the same time, ...

When you get better at a skill-recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game-sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

Much more difficult is learning to connect different types of stimuli or events, and predicting that one is linked to another. Such associative learning was most famously demonstrated when Ivan Pavlov ...