neuroscience
Canadian scientists discover how being bilingual creates advantages for the brain.
“Lifelong learning is extremely important,” says Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel, “and the more we learn about life span the more important we realize it is.”
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A new study suggests the brain gets more desensitized to lying with each lie you tell.
Just imagining movement fires the same neurons as if we were actually moving. A new study shows we can wake our sleeping mind to practice motor skills in our dreams.
Robin Williams was trapped inside his own rapidly-deteriorating brain, which was being overtaken by what his wife refers to as a “terrorist” — Lewy Body Disease.