Tag: brain

Middle-aged and older adults who sought hospital or emergency room care because of cannabis use were almost twice as likely ...

Proper asparagus-eating etiquette has long been a subject of debate: Should you cut the treelike spears with a fork and ...

An Australian psychologist named Luise Kazda has studied this very question. In a 2021 review paper, she and her colleagues ...

So sharp are partisan divisions these days that it can seem as if people are experiencing entirely different realities. Maybe ...

Small tweaks to your daily routine can go a long way toward protecting your body’s control center and preventing cognitive ...

For the millions of Americans who retire each year, stopping work might seem like a well-deserved break. But it can ...

Q: I’ve heard that keeping my brain active, with word games, crossword puzzles, reading and other activities, will help prevent ...

Five years — and hundreds of millions of cases — after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic, scientists ...

Most men, as many as 70 percent, say they reach orgasm quicker than they’d like. But there is an inverse ...

Over the last decade or so, research has revealed a clear pattern: People tend to overeat ultraprocessed foods. This could ...

For many people, aging feels like it happens in stops and starts. After a period of smooth sailing, one day, ...

Postpartum depression affects about one in every seven women who give birth, but little is known about what happens in ...

Women’s brains are superior to men’s in at least in one respect — they age more slowly. And now, a ...

To hit a tennis ball or dance the merengue you need sharp eyes and a good ear. But there’s also ...

Five years ago Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. that detailed how ...

Eleanor Maguire, a cognitive neuroscientist whose research on the human hippocampus — especially those belonging to London taxi drivers — ...

In early February, Vishvaa Rajakumar, a 20-year-old Indian college student, recently won the Memory League World Championship, an online competition ...

Teddi Mellencamp, a podcast host and television personality from the “Real Housewives” franchise, announced on Wednesday that she had multiple ...

Circadian rhythms dictate how bodily functions ebb and flow over a roughly daylong cycle, experts said, and these rhythms are ...

Spasmodic dysphonia is a neurological condition that causes certain muscles in the “voice box,” or larynx, to spasm, often making ...