Neuroscience & Brain

Silence may allow your brain to rejuvenate leaving you feeling a new freedom. Here's your brain on silence, read on to find out more.

In an upcoming book, two writers promote the science of neuroaesthetics — how creative pursuits from painting to cooking can promote physical and mental health.

Breathing is traditionally thought of as an automatic process driven by the brainstem—the part of the brain controlling such life-sustaining functions as heartbeat and sleeping patterns. But new and unique research, involving recordings made directly from within the brains of humans undergoing neurosurgery, shows that breathing can also change your brain.