“The kind of happiness that the founding fathers of the United States had in mind was what we might call flourishing or good fortune,” Thomas explains. “It's about doing well in life; it's not very ...

As a psychologist and neuroscientist with over two decades of research, I’m shocked by all the pseudoscience and misinformation on the internet about the brain and mental health. The truth is: Brain ...

It's easy for kids to get distracted when they're doing schoolwork, studying, or doing any other task that requires concentration. One thing that can help? Brain breaks! These quick activities for ...

Thanks to medical advances, more of us will live to be 100 and beyond, but our peak brain performance comes, at best, at about half that age. These startling statistics beg the question: Are we ...

This mind-boggling optical illusion can reveal interesting facts about your brain depending on what you see first. The tricky images are designed to confuse your brain as you might see something that ...

It's a myth that we use only 10% of our brains. However, you're not alone in buying into this. A survey done about 10 years ago found that almost two-thirds of Americans shared this misconception.