Meditation Can Change The World: Racial Prejudice Reduced After Just 7 Minutes Of 'Loving Kindness' Meditation

A Buddhist technique designed to increase kindness toward others was shown to be effective in reducing racial prejudice.

Scientists reveal mysteries of the brain

The human brain, a 3-pound organ and source of symphonies, mathematics, politics, hate and crime, is often hailed as the most complex biological entity in the known universe.

Exercise Increases Brain Plasticity, Study Says

A new study found that exercise can have beneficial effects on brain plasticity.

What Makes Our Brains Unique?

Our brains are arguably one of evolution's greatest achievements, composed of many regions that each have unique configurations of cells and patterns of connectivity that together bestow us our mental prowess. But what is it about our genes that makes this organ so distinct from those of others? 

Your brain tissue changes when you learn to navigate

Scientists have identified how spatial learning, - when we learn to navigate by driving the same route over and over alters the the brain

How does the brain secrete morality?

The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies convened a conference of neuroscientists and philosophers to ponder how our brains generate thoughts about ethics,

Mom's love good for child's brain

School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists, is the first to show that changes in this critical region of children’s brain anatomy are linked to a mother’s nurturing.

Listening to music lights up the whole brain

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new method that allows to study how the brain processes different aspects of music, such as rhythm, tonality and timbre (sound color) in a realistic listening situation.

Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation

Experienced meditators seem to be able switch off areas of the brain associated with daydreaming as well as psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, according to a new brain imaging study by Yale researchers.

Unexplained communication between brain hemispheres without corpus callosum

Could the brain be using electromagnetic fields to communicate between hemispheres

'Time' not necessarily deeply rooted in our brains. In the Amazonian rainforest a small tribe have successfully managed to ignore the pressures of time so successfully that they don’t even have a word for it

(Medical Xpress) -- Hidden away in the Amazonian rainforest a small tribe have successfully managed what so many dream of being able to do – to ignore the pressures of time so successfully that they don’t even have a word for it.

Functional MRI shows how mindfulness meditation changes decision-making process

Neuroimaging research shows that Buddhist meditators use different areas of the brain than other people when confronted with unfair choices, enabling them to make decisions rationally rather than emotionally.

Research shows adult brains capable of rapid new growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Veronica Kwok, Li-Hai Tan, and their colleagues at the University of Hong Kong, conclude that the adult human brain is capable of new rapid growth when exposed to stimuli similar to what babies experience as they are learning from their environment.

Mothers' hard work pays off with big brains for their babies

Brain growth in babies is linked to the amount of time and energy mothers "invest," according to new research. The study of 128 mammal species, including humans, shows that brain growth in babies is determined by the duration of pregnancy and how long they suckle. The research concludes that the longer the pregnancy and breastfeeding period in mammals, the bigger the baby