Summer 2019 Brain Fitness courses
Summer holiday is a great time to strengthen cognitive skills so your children don’t suffer from a “summer drain” and, on the opp...
No proven executive function advantage for bilingual children
Learning a second language in childhood is inherently advantageous for communication. However, parents, educators and scientists ...
You are your brain’s priority
When you see a photo of a group, do you look at yourself first? It turns out your brain is designed to do just that. According to...
“Lostness:” when the human brain can’t navigate
The human brain does a wonderful job of navigating through the landscape, with one important caveat: it relies on vision. In the ...
A bright and buzzy new approach to Alzheimer’s treatment
Over and over, promising medications tested for Alzheimer’s treatment fail in human trials. Now, scientists have tried an innovat...
A Little Exercise Can Do a Lot
For many people, the typical guideline of at least 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise per week can feel overwhelming. W...
No quick fix for ADHD but a variety of different strategies
There is no quick fix for ADHD. Although medication can help treat people’s symptoms, it’s only part of an overall ADHD tre...
New Research on Vitamin D and the Brain
Vitamin D deficiency is a very common problem, with over a billion people worldwide affected by it. For the brain, that’s a probl...
Why we don’t run into things
A recent study shows that the brain takes just 100 milliseconds (a tenth of a second) to make sense of an area’s geometry—the bas...