ADHD is officially a disorder of deficits in attention, behavior and focus. But patients point out upsides, like curiosity. Research is now catching up.
The Trump administration is cutting $1 billion in grants that support student mental health. That has educators worried.
Kanzi showed apes have the capacity for language, but in recent years scientists have questioned the ethics of ape experiments.
A tailor-made version of Minecraft let researchers look at the success of learning individually or taking cues from others while foraging for fruit.
In chess as in life, people use memory as a shortcut for decision-making. That strategy can backfire when the present doesn’t resemblance the past.
Societal upheaval can trigger uncertainty, which makes people susceptible to cognitive traps. Experts suggest some simple tools can help.
Across much of the world, loneliness increases from middle age to later years. That trend is reversed in the United States, a new study shows.
A dog's physical cues often take a back seat to environmental ones, skewing humans' perceptions, a small study suggests.
The new book Memory Lane convincingly demonstrates how memories are like Lego buildings that are constantly being rebuilt.
A study of nearly 38,000 adults shows that the number of kids correlates with coordination of brain regions’ activities — regardless of parents’ sex.
