For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early ...

Discover the effects of sleep deprivation on your brain and body, impacting cognition, mood, metabolism, and overall health.

The largest fMRI study to date finds that heavy cannabis use in young adults reduces brain activity and impairs working memory performance.

A research from the University of Technology Sydney suggests that compulsive behavior may not come from out-of-control habits. Instead, inflammation in a key brain area may make the brain overthink ...

By studying the tiny brains of honeybees, researchers are learning more about how we make decisions.

Scientists have discovered how to make people less selfish - slightly and temporarily - by stimulating two areas of the brain.

Chronic alcohol consumption profoundly alters gene expression in key brain regions involved in reward, impulse control, and ...

Willpower is not purely a personality trait. Aging, obesity, insulin resistance, and inflammation may impair frontal brain ...

Researchers identify the Functional-Structural Ratio (FSR) as the biological link between age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline, offering a potential new biomarker for dementia risk.

A new study that followed participants for two decades found some were up to a quarter less likely to develop a memory ...