Brain

Yawning could help cool down the brain and strengthen social bonds

Insomnia drugs improve sleep, but they also may stop a process that helps prevent dementia

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Alzheimer's may cause much of its brain damage before symptoms appear

Alzheimer's stages damage

Taking a class? Writing your notes may help you learn better than typing them

hand writing brain connectivity

Alzheimer's risk increases with rise in this 'hidden' body fat, researchers find

visceral fat alzheimer's

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia. What are warning signs of the condition?

Brain scans pinpoint unique responses to chronic pain, paving way for better treatments

Chronic Pain Brain Scans 2

Paralyzed man walks using 'digital bridge' between brain and spine

digital bridge walking

Can't stop eating junk food? The brain can be trained to prefer healthier options

Healthy Meal Vegan

Saliva test for concussions, which Penn State researchers helped create, receives U.S. patent

Saliva Concussion Test Penn State

Even a mild COVID-19 infection can lead to changes in the brain, study finds

Mild COVID brain

Severe depression changes the brains of women and men differently, study finds

Depression brain women

How rape affects memory, and why police need to know about that brain science

Rape Memory Brain

Learning a new skill? Taking short breaks could help, research shows

Learning a new skill

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences

Brain Sex Differences

High blood pressure as early as middle age can damage your brain, study finds

High blood pressure can damage the brain

Deep brain stimulation study could lead to 'landmark' Parkinson's finding

Deep brain stimulation in early stage Parkinson's

The coronavirus sometimes may attack the brain and the lungs

COVID-19 and the brain

Children's Health

Adult, baby brains mirror each other during play, Princeton study finds

Princeton Babies

Brain surgery patient grateful to now live as a 'stereotypical' young adult

Penn Medicine Brain Surgery AVM 2

Will Smith reposts sneaker photo and singlehandedly revives debate about perceived color of shoes

Will Smith viral Vans sneaker

Reading and listening to books stimulates the same areas of the brain

Brain Maps Berkeley Reading Books Listening Audiobooks study

Miracle machine makes heroic rescues – and leaves patients in limbo

ECMO Treatment Flu Patient 06182019

We have a subconscious negative brain response to disfigured faces, Penn study finds

implicit bias disfigured faces

Alternative Medicine

Jefferson and Wills Eye center to focus on connections between neuroscience, vision care

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Childhood trauma may lead to depression in adults, Penn study finds

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The biology behind night owls' struggle in the 9-to-5 lifestyle

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Children's Health

Worry over kids' excessive smartphone use is more justified than ever before

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Beware the neti pot: Woman died from brain-eating amoeba after using tap water

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Taste testing alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer feels the same to your brain, study found

stock image of beers

Scientists have discovered explanation for evolution of our larger brain

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What is it about yawning?

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Brain stimulation can reduce physical and sexual assaults – study

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New Jersey lawmaker seeks ban on tackle football for kids under 12

Football Stock

Canola oil may worsen Alzheimer's disease, Temple researchers say

CHOP finds brain remaps in child who received double hand transplant

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Penn experiments discover brain region key to driving behavioral change

Findings differ on relationship between drinking and dementia

Study: Strokes declining in men, but not in women

CHOP looks to brain scans for breakthrough in early detection of autism

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Einstein's brain: Slices of genius at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum

Will this story go viral? Penn researchers use MRIs to show you know the answer

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