Watch The Beautiful Love Story Of A Young Couple Fighting Cancer
“We were living a normal life, and the next thing you know, boom, Allen has a brain tumor.” – In a ceremony from Chou’s bed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital…
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Texas Lawmaker Proposes Giving Lawyers To Some Fetuses
A Texas state lawmaker proposes giving fetuses legal representation when the mother is brain-dead. State Rep. Matt Krause (R) introduced a measure requiring the state to appoint a lawyer to…
Simple Skin Test May Detect Alzheimer’s And Parkinson’s Years In Advance, Study Says
While severe problems with the memory and the nervous system are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s respectively, it’s the skin that could detect the disease early on, perhaps even before…
Diet May Be As Important To Mental Health As It Is To Physical Health
We know that food affects the body — but could it just as powerfully impact the mind? While the role of diet and nutrition in our physical health is undeniable,…
How The Brain Performs ‘Mental Time Travel’
In one important way, we are capable of traveling back in time. Through memory, we can return to childhood, go back to the moment we first fell in love or…
The pregnant war photographer who couldn’t walk away
Lynsey Addario was five months pregnant and taking photos of skeletal children in the Horn of Africa, when she felt her own baby kicking for the first time. “He came…
The pregnant war photographer who couldn’t walk away
Lynsey Addario was five months pregnant and taking photos of skeletal children in the Horn of Africa, when she felt her own baby kicking for the first time. “He came…
Researchers Test Device That Lets Deaf Children Hear For The First Time
At age 3, Angelica Lopez is helping to break a sound barrier for deaf children. Born without working auditory nerves, she can detect sounds for the first time — and…
Investigators focusing on Bobbi Kristina Brown’s boyfriend, source says
Bobbi Kristina, 21, was found facedown in a bathtub full of water in her Atlanta area home on January 31. She was “unresponsive, meaning not breathing, no heartbeat,” a Roswell…
Study Says Meditation Could Protect The Brain From Signs Of Aging
Meditation is good for the brain. A new wave of research has connected the ancient practice to many cognitive benefits, from greater attention and focus to reduced symptoms of anxiety…
Rep. Alan Nunnelee dead at 56
The Republican congressman from Mississippi was 56-years-old and died after a battle with brain cancer. He had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in the spring. – CNN’s Jeremy Diamond…
Measuring This Brain Region Could Predict Depression And Anxiety Years Before It Hits
We all encounter challenges and obstacles in life, such as divorce, death, illness and unemployment. But while some people are highly resilient and able to cope with these stresses, others…
Childhood Anxiety Could Physically Change The Brain
Mental health issues may seem like adult-only problems, but they can also have a profound impact on younger minds. In fact, anxiety in preschoolers may lead to physiological changes in…
The Key To Genius May Be Learning To Ignore Something Your Brain Wants To Tell You
www.upworthy.com: A new study suggests that when brilliant people are thinking creatively, they all do this weird thing: They basically switch off a big part of their brain. Subscribe to…
HuffPost’s Love And Sex Podcast Explores The Future Of Sex And Robots
Can a robot consent to having sex? Will an operating system replace your girlfriend? Will we able to sync to our partners’ vibrators just by using our brain waves? If…
How Men And Women Process Emotions Differently
Are women “wired” to be more emotional? Not exactly — but new research provides more evidence that the male and female brain may have very different ways of processing emotion….
Researchers Map Out Where Attention Lives In The Brain
Difficulty focusing, for many of us, is a daily reality of modern life. How many times do you open your email and get sidetracked from a more important task at…
Cracking The Brain’s Genetic Code
An international team of over 300 scientists are taking on an ambitious project to identify eight common genetic mutations that appear to age the brain by three years on average….
A Few Walnuts A Day May Help Boost Memory, Study Finds
Go ahead, reach for those walnuts. A recently released study suggests that eating a handful of walnuts per day — or even less — may help boost memory, concentration and…
The Fascinating Idiosyncracies Of The Austistic Brain
Even with mounting scientific research and hundreds of clinical studies, the autistic brain remains something of a mystery. Some research has suggested that there is too much connectivity in the…
The worms that invade your brain
Once you consume them, they can move throughout your bodyyour eyes, your tissues and most commonly your brain. They leave doctors puzzled in their wake as they migrate and settle…
Hotel Owner Finds Tree Stump That Looks Like E.T.
When Billy Harley went out to cut up some wood, he had no idea he “wood” see an E.T. – Dr. Kang Lee, a psychologist at the University of Toronto,…
Brain scans could help doctors better predict your behavior
The paper that runs in the latest edition of Neuron concludes that doctors might have more success treating some patients if they examined the way a person’s brain functioned first….
Imogen Heap’s sci-fi gloves make anyone a musician
For a start, the “studio” is actually a converted barn deep in the English countryside. The woman playing the “instrument” is Grammy Award-winning musician Imogen Heap. And the drum she’s…