Just light exercise—10 or 20 minutes of walking a day—can be enough to take the edge off. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Avocados and walnuts don’t seem like they have much in common, yet both contain healthy fats linked to better brain health. If you had to choose just one, walnuts tend to pull ahead, but that doesn’t ...

Researchers have crossed a threshold that once belonged squarely to science fiction: they have built working models of brains ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

Avoiding cannabis use before certain cognitive tasks could improve performance Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022 and his work has ...

A study by the University of Colorado found heavy cannabis use affects working memory in young adults. 63% of heavy cannabis users showed reduced brain activity during memory tasks. Researchers ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...