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Many people believe intelligence is a fixed trait you receive at birth and cannot change. Scientific discoveries paint a completely different picture of how the human brain actually works. Your ...

A new study shows that improving your cardiovascular endurance changes your neural chemistry. Fitter individuals release ...

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A randomized placebo controlled experiment shows that increasing noradrenaline during learning does not improve basic memory accuracy but increases the spread of associations across the hippocampal ...

Cerebral blood flow is essential for normal brain function and often perturbed in neurological disease. If one shines a ...

A new study shows that music changes brain activity during eye contact, helping people feel more connected and socially engaged.