This is Your Brain on Smog
Bad news for those of you who live near a busy highway: research shows that exposure to air pollution may affect your cognition for the...
The Over-the-Counter Medicine That Increases Your Risk-Taking
We tend to think of our personalities as pretty fixed and stable. We divide ourselves into introverts and extroverts, dreamers and...
Want Better Sleep? Practice Optimism
Welcome back to our Sleep Series, a string of blog posts about the role of sleep in our lives, including the benefits of achieving enough...
When Google is Your Doctor, Beware
Feeling a bit sick? Wondering if you're coming down with something? If your first instinct is to turn to Google for a little...
Stay Sharp: Eat Your Flavonoids
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias can have devastating effects. Neuroscience is searching for ways to offset, delay, or prevent...
Dead Certain: The Dangers of Skepticism in a COVID-19 World
By now, all our lives have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Events have been canceled. Movie theaters and restaurants stand empty....
A Better Immune System, in Your Sleep
Welcome back to our Sleep Series, a string of blog posts about the role of sleep in our lives, including the benefits of achieving enough...
