"These findings suggest that consciously generated positive expectations can engage reward circuitry to influence immune ...

Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase ...

Instead of focusing on your sore arm after your next vaccine, you might want to think good thoughts. A new study that trained ...

Our thoughts are an ever-changing swirl of fears, feelings, desires, impulses, memories and body sensations that interact to ...

The brain controls many aspects of thinking — remembering, planning and organizing, making decisions, and much more. These cognitive abilities affect how well we do everyday tasks and whether we can ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Feeling overwhelmed by constant noise and choices? Learn practical rules to declutter your mind, stay focused, and think ...

It’s 8 p.m. You’ve just flopped on the couch after a long day. Maybe you stared at spreadsheets, negotiated with toddlers, or endured an endless Zoom call. Now, as you zone out to the soft flicker of ...

The thoughts we focus on create how we feel, which controls the actions we take. This is the backbone of the thought model: ...