If you aren’t a good listener when you’re stressed, you aren’t alone. Mice aren’t either.

A new study finds that the urge to move to music—known as groove—is a distinct physiological response, separate from musical enjoyment.

Chronic stress weakens the brain’s ability to process sounds, requiring louder stimuli to trigger normal responses, according to new research in mice.

Chronic stress does more than just affect mood—it may actually change the way we hear. Researchers found that stressed mice ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, ...

I teach a course on the relationship between social media and society at Durham College. As part of their assessments, I ask ...

Stimulation Clicker satirizes how it can feel to mainline the web by filling up the screen with internet videos, stock charts and Duolingo questions. There’s email to answer, too.

Many are suffering from overstimulation by technology, and artificial intelligence threatens to worsen the problem. Dr. Anna ...

According to Bottemanne and Joly, brain imaging studies have shown that fathers can experience alterations in gray matter across many different brain regions. Gray matter is the cortical tissue that ...