Although whole numbers and fractions are processed differently in the brain, when you compare their values, a single "mental map" akin to a number line lights up.

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Scientists at the University of Arizona found that the brain may be doing something more interesting as it grows older: ...

Pollution has long been indirectly linked with dementia. Now scientists wonder if it may be physically reshaping the brain.

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified three brain pathways associated with sustained ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a therapeutic technique that delivers electrical pulses to specific areas of the brain via an ...

Combining mindfulness meditation with a gentle buzzing device on the chest can physically alter brain pathways related to ...

Medications commonly used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may help reduce certain symptoms of ...

Reducing levels of an enzyme linked to the single gene mutation in Angelman syndrome restored brain size and normalized ...

Birdwatching can help slow brain ageing and is increasingly being used as therapy for dementia patients.