Thinking Sensing and Behaving

The brain works best with one job at a time, but daily life calls for multitasking, causing a “bottle neck” in the brain.

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Do Antidepressants During Pregnancy Affect Fetal Brain Development?

The risks of antidepressants during pregnancy are minimal — and they pale in comparison to the risks of not treating depression.

Can You Learn in Your Sleep?

Learning new information isn’t quite so easy as popping in headphones and passively listening to taped lectures while you slumber — not yet, anyway.

Visual Aphantasia: Memories in Words

People with aphantasia are incapable of forming mental images.

Sleep Paralysis: The Night Hag

The terrifying experience is not paranormal activity but a common neurological phenomenon.

How Eating a High-Fat Diet Affects My Brain

Regularly consuming fatty foods sets off a chain of events in the body that increase the risk of stroke.

How Neurons Make Muscles Twitch

Every step you take, every move you make, motor neurons play a role.

The Plastic Brain

The brain’s impressive capacity to adapt and remodel itself peaks in childhood.

The Teen Years

Environment and experiences in the teen years guide development of some of the human brain’s more complex functions.

The First Years of Life

The first months and years of life mark the most rapid periods of growth and development for the human brain.

Early Experience Shapes the Brain for Life

The neural connections that develop during infancy and childhood can have lasting effects on learning and health.

For Motor Neurons, A Long Path to Find a Mate

Getting to the right place so the brain can work properly is the ultimate challenge for any neuron, but motor neurons have it especially tough.

Want Children to "Pay Attention"? Make Their Brains Curious!

Learn some tips and techniques for engaging children in the classroom.