Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have traced a genetic mutation found in psychosis patients to a ...

A randomized placebo controlled experiment shows that increasing noradrenaline during learning does not improve basic memory accuracy but increases the spread of associations across the hippocampal ...

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Handwriting engages motor, language, and attention systems, activating the brain more fully than typing. Writing by hand ...

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TORONTO, March 19, 2026 /CNW/ - The Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) is investing $640,000 in eight new projects through its Centre for Analytics (CfA). The projects create tools to accelerate research, ...

Scientists have successfully connected living human brain cells to a computer system and taught them to interact with the classic video game DOOM. The strange experiment marks a new step toward ...

A machine-learning analysis of brain waves recorded during sleep may help identify people at high risk of developing dementia, according to a study led by UC San Francisco and Beth Israel Deaconess ...

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 ...

Neuroscientist Erik Wing talks us through his new research, which reveals how birding can literally reshape the mind.