What happens in the brain during musical improv? Researcher Charles Limb scanned the brains of jazz musicians to find out. Dr. Charles Limb is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of ...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often described as one of the invisible scars that firefighters and others accumulate after years of dealing with trauma in their jobs. Now the scars are ...
Our brains are always adapting to our environments and routines. Host Cristina Quinn talks with Washington Post “Brain Matters” columnist Richard Sima about what a healthy aging brain looks like and ...
When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a museum for example, what do you see and what do you feel? Does it conjure an old memory, a sense of spirituality, or confusion? Artists and ...
A new study reveals that you're more likely to remember solutions from aha moments than ones you reach intentionally. Reading time 2 minutes We’ve all had the aha moment, when the solution to a ...
Brain health is a hot topic showing up in podcasts, headlines and social feeds, but what it means to us personally depends on where we are in life. In our 20s and 30s, it’s about staying sharp, making ...
If this presidential cycle has unified us on anything, it might be that cognitive decline is a hard thing to talk about. Both President Biden and former President Trump face plenty of criticism, ...