A new study has found that mothers who delivered vaginally compared to caesarean section delivery were significantly more responsive to the cry of their own baby, identified through MRI brain scans two to four weeks after delivery.

Fortunately, until brain cells actually perish, we can stage an intervention. Although brain-training software is a booming industry, here are five other—and in most cases better—ways to properly care for this delicate and powerful organ.

"Fans of classical music and jazz are creative, pop lovers are hardworking and, despite the stereotypes, heavy metal listeners are gentle, creative types who are at ease with themselves." Ok, I kind of doubt the heavy metal classification.

The greek newspaper To Vima publishes once a week, a magazine along with the newspaper called vimagazino. I was reading the other day and I found a very funny article which shows how utterly stupid sometimes psychiatrists can be.

My new book, The Stuff of Thought, has a chapter on swearing. In my next book I will discuss historic declines in violence. To my surprise, the two topics may be connected.

A new brain imaging study supports the notion that Zen training helps to clear the brain.

Peter Trachtenberg took a tour around the world in his quest to understand why some people are crushed by suffering and others are transformed by it.

FROM THE moment US military and civilian officials began detaining and interrogating Guantanamo Bay prisoners with methods that the Red Cross has called tantamount to torture, they have had the assistance of psychologists. This has been a source of anguis

Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing not only where a remembered experience is registered but also, in part, how the brain is able to recreate it.