Your brain isn’t built for long-term career thinking. Psychology explains why your plans derail and how to work with your mind instead of against it. Long-term career planning is probably the most ...

As a psychologist and neuroscientist with over two decades of research, I’m shocked by all the pseudoscience and misinformation on the internet about the brain and mental health. The truth is: Brain ...

The human brain is a small organ with an enormous reputation. It shapes every thought, memory, emotion, and decision, yet scientists are still working to uncover how it truly operates. Even with all ...

Popular culture abounds with “facts” about the brain, such as we only use 10 percent of it (false); it weighs three pounds (true); it consumes as much energy as a 20 Watt light bulb (true); it shrinks ...

Reality is far stranger than fiction. While we think we understand the world around us, countless phenomena, historical oddities, and scientific truths exist that can completely shatter our ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Decade of the Brain stretched from 1990 ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...