Researchers found that optimistic individuals share similar patterns of brain activity when imagining future events, ...

Your brain isn’t a static organ—it constantly changes based on your thoughts and experiences, a phenomenon known as neuroplasticity. Positive future-focused thinking is like a workout for your ...

As the research participants thought about future scenarios, optimists displayed similar neural patterns, but pessimists ...

Researchers also used brain scans to look for markers of cerebrovascular disease, such as microbleeds and infarcts, areas of dead tissue due to lack of blood supply.

This suggests that a common area of the brain plays a critical role in both reasoning and fluid intelligence." Professor Lisa Cipolotti, Senior Author, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and ...

A new study mapped brain responses to different kinds of love—parental, platonic, romantic, and nature—showing unique brain activations for each type.

Three coloured spots on each half of the brain illuminate special locations in the movement areas of the brain that connect to areas involved in thinking, planning and control of basic bodily ...

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