Brisk walking led to slight improvements on mental tests for older people with memory problems in what is billed as the first rigorous test of exercise on the aging brain.
A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead?
A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead?
One night last spring, Conor Mather-Licht was celebrating the end of his freshman year in college. Out to dinner with friends, he started to read the menu, but couldn't.
British researchers say a new drug could effectively halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease, offering hope to millions.
Patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease who performed better on a treadmill test had less atrophy in the areas of the brain that control memory
Research shows that gay men's brains resemble those of straight women
A new study shows that patients in nursing homes with brighter lights do better than those in dimly lit facilities. Why?
An operation to remove a malignant tumor from Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain was successful, and the Democrat should suffer no permanent damage from the procedure, his surgeon reported Monday.
Sen. Edward Kennedy has the most common type of brain tumor, but the size and nature of the tumor will determine how life threatening it is, CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said Tuesday.
Brisk walking led to slight improvements on mental tests for older people with memory problems in what is billed as the first rigorous test of exercise on the aging brain.
A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead?
A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead?
One night last spring, Conor Mather-Licht was celebrating the end of his freshman year in college. Out to dinner with friends, he started to read the menu, but couldn't.
British researchers say a new drug could effectively halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease, offering hope to millions.
Patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease who performed better on a treadmill test had less atrophy in the areas of the brain that control memory
Research shows that gay men's brains resemble those of straight women
A new study shows that patients in nursing homes with brighter lights do better than those in dimly lit facilities. Why?
An operation to remove a malignant tumor from Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain was successful, and the Democrat should suffer no permanent damage from the procedure, his surgeon reported Monday.
Sen. Edward Kennedy has the most common type of brain tumor, but the size and nature of the tumor will determine how life threatening it is, CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said Tuesday.
A new study shows that people with lower IQs benefit from complex mental activity during their careers by avoiding brain deterioration
Just a few minutes of moderate daily exercise may stave off the signs of dementia in the elderly, a new study suggests
A popular purveyor of atheism ventures into brain science, with a study that he contends is the first to show how the brain processes belief
Genes that regulate the brain's sensitivity to dopamine -- a chemical involved in addiction and motivation -- can affect the ability to learn from our errors
A new study finds that the brains of kids with ADHD mature more slowly than average. The question is, do they catch up?
Researchers at University College London (UCL) are helping to explain why humans see illusions.
When you are next in the lobby of a Westin hotel in North America, take a deep breath. It may not hit you at first, but if you're careful you should detect a hint of geranium or a note of freesia.
Something in the lakes around Orlando, Florida, has claimed the lives of three boys this summer.
Three studies examine Americans' sleep deprivation, pointing to cellphones and work as chief culprits, and the consequences of sleeplessness for kids
Research in Motion, which makes the BlackBerry wireless device, announced on April 11 that net income was up from a year earlier thanks to a 66 percent increase in sales.
"I just know God is with me. I can feel Him always," a young Haitian woman once told me.
It's wartime, and an enemy doctor is conducting painful and inevitably fatal experiments on children.
Jeff Hawkins was just another junior engineer at Intel in 1979 when he stumbled across an issue of Scientific American magazine that would illuminate a path to what would become his life's work.
Close your eyes for a minute and envision all the romantic parts of the human body.
Like any reasonable person, John Niggeling, 56, deletes e-mails from African dictators offering him a share of their fortunes. He ignores print ads promising thousands of dollars a week working fro...
White belt, green belt, brown belt, black. Novice, apprentice, journeyman, master. VP, GM, COO ... Oh, never mind. Poems are good for listing four things. But excellence can't be reduced to some si...
Think scams happen only to other people? Wake up and smell the coffee. By Donna Rosato, Money Magazine
A young man in a white physician's coat and a bow tie is walking toward us down the sidewalk, a plastic five-gallon bucket swinging from his hand.
Mention Artificial Intelligence and most people are immediately transported into a distant future inspired by popular science fiction.
Heaven or Hell? In the first of a three part series CNN hears how some scientists believe the future will be better than our wildest dreams.
Who hasn't gone to a meeting and completely blanked on the name of a co-worker? I gave the memo to...um...uh.... Suffering this kind of brain freeze might be considered cute when you're 28. But if ...
The simplest grammar, long thought to be one of the skills that separate man from beast, can be taught to a common songbird, new research suggests.
Dr. Ali Rezai is a doctor of last resort.
MEAP, ITBS, CRCT, TAKS. There are scores of acronyms in educational testing, but these four-letter terms stand for far more than No. 2 pencils and pages of tiny circles.
When Larry Goldstein was in high school, his biology class project was to study the brains of goldfish -- their memory and how they learn.
People all over the world describe falling in love in similar terms: euphoria, exhilaration, elation.
In a breakthrough that brings the technology of futuristic film "The Matrix" closer to reality, scientists say they have cracked part of the brain's own computer code.
American scientists have discovered a way of creating new brain cells in a dish -- a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for conditions such as Parkinson's disease and epilepsy.
By the middle of the 21st century it will be possible to download your brain to a supercomputer, according to a leading thinker on the future.
Memory is a universal, if often misunderstood, process central to people's sense of identity -- who they are, what they know and how they envision their future.
The first question, flashed on a screen a few inches from my eyes, is easy. Do I want an Amazon.com gift certificate worth $16.31 today, or one worth $16.31 a month from now? Even with my head and ...
Dyslexia sufferers showed "small but significant improvements" in their reading abilities while testing computer software designed to treat the condition, scientists have reported.
The world's most powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine can produce higher-resolution images in less time, helping doctors prescribe the most suitable medication to stroke patients.
A Florida scientist has developed a "brain" in a glass dish that is capable of flying a virtual fighter plane and could enhance medical understanding of neural disorders such as epilepsy.
All the while Jeff Hawkins was creating the PalmPilot, launching the era of handheld computing, and amassing hundreds of millions of dollars, a big part of his mind was somewhere else. It was somew...
Sounds like something out of "The Twilight Zone," doesn't it?
Scientists are turning monkeys' thoughts into actions, a potentially significant step toward helping paralyzed people control their own activities.
On a foggy day in the fall of 2001, the top executives of Handspring gathered in a drab conference room at a hotel in Monterey, Calif. The mood was tense, the debate heated. The company, co-founded...
According to Steven Pinker, every human exclamation, every chuckle, every expression of love stems not from life experience, but from millions of years of human development.
The consulting firm reforming NASA's safety culture said the overwhelming drive to succeed that led to mistakes before the shuttle Columbia's destruction could be harnessed to make the agency a safer organization.
MEMORY LOSS Michela Gallagher, Ph.D. Chair, Johns Hopkins University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
In 1945, scientist Vannevar Bush famously proposed the idea of the Memex, a mechanized recording system for the mind. It's taken almost six decades, but researchers are finally closing in on techno...
Even as scientists race to develop drugs that combat the devastating memory loss of Alzheimer's disease, they are closing in on fixes for garden-variety "senior moments." Pharmaceutical maker Merck...
With the bull market in ruins around us, many investors have never felt more bewildered. And they are asking agonized questions: How could I have lost so much money so fast? Can I do better somehow...
The hot emotions triggered by the amygdala, your brain's panic center, can be harmful when they make you do things you shouldn't. But they can be beneficial, too -- as I learned in April, when I participated in an experiment at the University of Iowa.
On our tour of your investing brain, the first stop is the amygdala (a-MIG-duh-luh), deep in the forward lower area of the brain. (There's one on the left side and one on the right.)
Suddenly, stunning investment insights are coming from the frontiers of one of the least likely fields you could imagine: neuroscience. In university and hospital laboratories around the world, researchers are using the latest breakthroughs in technology to trace the exact circuitry your brain uses to make the kinds of decisions you rely on as an investor.
You've burned your broker's number. Shut down your Ameritrade account. Rediscovered money markets. After a year of misery, your equity fever finally broke, and you don't want to fix it. Isn't it be...
In Memento, Guy Pearce's character drives a hot Jaguar, wears designer suits, and has sex with Carrie-Anne Moss. So why is he so angry? Well, ever since he was thumped on the head, he can't form ne...
The alarm finally goes off in your head around 3 p.m. Your face flushes and your hands plow through the papers on your desk. You have accidentally stood someone up for lunch. It gets worse. You can...
THE WINSOME schoolgirl at right below, Jennifer Darling, 17, of Mansfield, Massachusetts, suffers from one of the most terrifying and mysterious conditions challenging modern medicine. It goes by t...
Researchers may at last have found a promising path toward treatment of Alzheimer's disease. No one has yet discovered a way to stop or slow down this devastating malfunction of the brain, which ro...
WHEN HIS PARENTS brought 3-month-old Jacob Stark to UCLA's medical school last winter, he was stricken with infantile spasms, a pernicious form of epilepsy that starts at birth. Dozens of times a d...
Familiar question: What kind of intelligence gets you ahead in the world of business? In Practical Intelligence: Working Smarter in Business and the Professions (Harper & Row, $17.95), Roger Peters...
The people at the top put their pants or skirts on just like you and me, right? Sure, they may draw down those fancy salaries, but for what? For politicking their way up the ladder and then taking ...
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