For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...

"The brain is not fixed—like a muscle, it responds to training and care," Dr. Majid Fotuhi, MD, Ph.D., told Newsweek.

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...

Regular physical activity reduces inflammation, lowers stress, improves sleep, and supports hormonal balance, all of which are essential for a healthy brain. You don’t need extreme workouts or ...

In the first study of its kind, neuroscientists have shown the real-world benefits that sunlight gives the brain, beyond ...

Dopamine plays a more complex and precise role in brain function than previously thought: it not only enhances neural ...

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The process of “epigenetic memory” in nerve cells plays a key role in learning ability, memory function, and healthy brain ...

Memories can form outside of the brain, according to new research. Non-brain cells exposed to chemical pulses similar to the ones that brain cells are exposed to when presented with new information ...

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.