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 ...

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 ...

Humans and certain animals appear to have an innate capacity to learn relationships between different objects or events in ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

Scientists have long sought to understand the complexities of human intelligence. The relationship between brain structure ...

Chronic stress changes the way our brain processes sounds, according to new research conducted on mice at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. For instance, sounds need to be louder during chronic ...

A study sheds light on how networks in the brain detect new information, offering insight into disorders like schizophrenia.

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex acts as a "memory machine," constantly detecting novel stimuli to refine its predictions of the future.