Neurological and Psychiatric

How Concerned About Brain Injury Should We Be? In high school stadiums across the country, a certain contagious frenzy is generated by the playing of a high school band and the shouting of cheerleaders as the home team takes the...

Did you miss the "Neuroplasticity and Healing" Summit with the Dalai Lama, Dr. Michael Merzenich, Dr. Edward Taub, and Norman Doidge? Or did you find the video feed a bit lengthy and hard to understand? The wonderful Brain Science Podcast--long...

Recently news of a controversial Facebook research study came out, and it upset many people. For the study, researchers had manipulated people's Facebook feeds to show them either more happy stories or more sad stories, and then measured how that...

A recent study from Japan found that children who watch TV a lot have more gray matter than kids who don't watch TV. But, the researchers warn, that is not necessarily a good thing. The study looked at brain scans...

Every year, television advertising during the Super Bowl serves as a pointer to what Americans are thinking about. One of the more memorable ads from this year's game featured a computer-generated version of actor Christopher Reeve rising unsteadily from his...