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Brain Development
While LooksMaxxing often headlines the news, the idea of BrainMaxxing deserves real attention. Growing your mind never goes out of style.
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Why social media is the perfect recipe for kids to become addicted to their smartphones.
In this excerpt from "Playful," Cas Holman surveys the research that brought the neuroscience of play into the mainstream.
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Finding meaning isn’t just personally fulfilling — it’s critical to our brain’s development, explains USC neuroscientist.
Even before birth, our brains are taking note of the languages we hear.
Medical psychologist Catherine Monk explains how prenatal mental care benefits both mothers and babies.
New research shows that the transition from general to specific memories involves the maturation of inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus.
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Plato and Carl Sagan were wrong about the human brain, says a top neuroscientist.
Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
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Adolescents’ brains are highly capable, if inconsistent, during this critical age of exploration and development. They are also acutely tuned into rewards.
Chess could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives.
This is the latest study to confirm that the brain does not fully mature until at least the third decade of life.
New memories appear to be stabilized in the brain by a neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
An increase in genetic regulatory elements explains how modern humans evolved bigger brains than other hominins.
These salamanders are helping unlock the mysteries of brain evolution and regeneration.
One tiny change might have made a huge difference.
Despite the fact that both species shared a similarly large neocortex, scientists still have many questions about how closely the function of their brains resembled our own.
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
John Templeton Foundation