At what age does an adolescent start thinking as an adult? A new study published this week in Nature Communications presents some of the first definitive evidence that executive function - a set of ...

Dual art therapy, combining music and painting, significantly improved symptoms, cognitive function, and quality of life in ...

Executive function—top-down processes by which the human mind controls behavior, regulating thoughts and actions—have long been studied using a standard set of tools, with these assessments being ...

A significant, long-term reduction in calorie consumption resulted in a slowing of aging in the brain, according to a study ...

After all the controversy over the past few years about gain-of-function research on viruses, especially the Covid-19 virus, I thought this kind of work was on hold, at least in the U.S. Indeed, the ...

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine investigators are seeking healthy volunteers for a research study of cognition that involves non-invasive brain stimulation during functional MRI scanning ...

The largest study yet into the effects of cannabis on the brains of 18- to 36-year-olds has found that the drug can reduce brain function during cognitive tests. The findings will help people to make ...

Analytic functions and function spaces are fundamental concepts in complex analysis and functional analysis. Analytic functions are those that are locally represented by power series, and they play a ...

Water makes up for around 50-70% of human body weight and is necessary for the daily functioning of the body, including playing key roles in metabolism, maintenance of electrolyte balance, nutrient ...

A late 1980s commercial meant to combat drug addiction used a pair of frying eggs as a metaphor for the effects of drugs on the human brain. While researchers have long understood that there is a ...