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Do Brain-Training Games Make You Smarter?

The pitch is appealing: sharpen your mind with a few minutes of brain games each day. Unfortunately, science suggests this promise is probably too good to be true.

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Natural Disasters Take a Toll on Mental Health

After the torrential rains end, or the flood recedes, or the fire burns out, many people continue to feel the emotional wounds of a natural disaster.

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Noise Pollution Isn’t Just Annoying — It’s Bad for Your Health

Whether it’s the hum of an always-on TV or the window-rattling noise of airplanes overhead, the din of modern life poses a threat to mental and physical health.

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Investigating How Neurons Use Fuel: Stories From the U.S. BRAIN Initiative

A team of scientists is seeking answers to a fundamental understanding of how and when neurons utilize the nutrients that give them energy.

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How Pregnancy Changes the Brain

Pregnancy sculpts the brain in a way that may improve social cognition and caregiving.

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Motherhood and the Brain

Elseline Hoekzema and her research team studied physical changes in (human) moms’ brain structure by scanning the brains of about 80 men and women

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Alcohol and the Brain

Click the buttons below for an assortment of videos and articles to learn some of the facts, myths, and long-term effects of alcohol.  

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Do Hurt Feelings Actually Hurt?

There’s no mistaking a broken heart for a broken bone — but our brains might look at both kinds of pain the same way.

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Eating Right, Thinking Right

The holidays are an excuse to enjoy your favorite treats! But what happens to your brain when you over-indulge?

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Do Dogs Really Love Us?

This film investigates whether dogs love us by reviewing behavioural and neuroscientific evidence.

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Gender and the Brain

Today, neuroimaging studies are shedding light on the brain differences between trans- and cis-gender individuals.

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Pesticides, Infections, and the Hunt for the Causes Behind Autism

Scientists are harnessing the brain's own hormones to help treat the symptoms of autism.

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Smoking Out the Therapeutic Possibilities of Cannabinoids

Can we use the brain’s natural marijuana-like compounds to alleviate PTSD, chronic pain, and other debilitating disorders?

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