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Being in the shower is the classic example. Your mind wanders. Then, all of the sudden, eureka! A new insight or creative breakthrough occurs. Researchers have investigated why a wandering mind sometimes comes up with creative solutions to a problem when a person is engaged in a “mindless” task.

A researcher has developed a new theory of consciousness, explaining why it developed, what it is good for, which disorders affect it, and why dieting (and resisting other urges) is so difficult.

A new screening test App could help advance the early detection of Parkinson’s disease and severe COVID-19, improving the management of these illnesses.

Researchers have published a study that shows that the phenomenology of "mind blanking" challenges the belief that the human mind is always thinking.

Researchers shed light on how an optimal intake of electrophilic compounds like procyanidins, found in foods like chocolate and apples, is linked to hormesis of hemodynamic and metabolic responses.

According to research, 3D printed flavor-based cues related to a memory allowed people to "time travel” back to the past with an enhanced memory of the event.

In the brain of adult mammals neural stem cells ensure that new nerve cells, i.e. neurons, are constantly formed. Researchers recently discovered a second stem cell population in the mouse brain. This new type of stem cell, and not the one previously known, is primarily involved in the production of new neurons in the olfactory bulb of adult mice.

Researchers investigating why weighted blankets may ease insomnia have identified that using a weighted blanket boosts the levels of melatonin, the hormone that increases in response to darkness.

A new study by researchers at the University of Glasgow has found that former Scottish international rugby union players have a higher risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases, including dementia, Parkinson’s disease and motor neuron disease.

Researchers have discovered that the female brain shows higher expression of an enzyme that results in greater accumulation of tau, the protein responsible for the formation of toxic protein clumps in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients.