For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

ADHD stimulants may improve performance not by sharpening focus, but by making the brain more awake and motivated.

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is organized occurring at age nine, 32, 66 and 83. Across each of these ...

We’re racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts. You see signs of it everywhere, from brain-computer interfaces to algorithms that detect emotions from facial scans.

Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin appear to help children with ADHD by activating brain areas involved in alertness and ...

A brain-scan study reveals key components of the brain's navigation system, which may help us better understand early symptoms of dementia. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

If you scroll through TikTok or Instagram long enough, you'll inevitably stumble across the line: "Your frontal lobe isn't ...

About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...

For years, stimulant medications for ADHD have been described as chemical accelerators, framed as drugs that rev up a ...