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Train elementary school students how to be creative and you can help increase their resilience in the face of real-life problems, new research suggests.

Everyday symbols like &?!#@$ are easier to remember than words with the same meaning, reports a new study, which highlights how people remember graphic symbols and logos.

Researchers have uncovered how neuron densities are distributed across and within cortical areas in the mammalian brain. They have unveiled a fundamental organizational principle of cortical cytoarchitecture.

A study in more than 15,000 people has found that physical fitness is linked with a lower likelihood of developing atrial fibrillation and stroke.

For people who have experienced a heart attack or stroke, taking a daily aspirin has been shown to help prevent a second one. Yet fewer than half of people worldwide who have had a heart attack or stroke take the medication, according to a new study.

Researchers are using mathematical models to better understand the effects of disruptions like daylight savings time, working night shifts, jet lag or even late-night phone scrolling on the body’s circadian rhythms.

Women with larger breasts tend to exercise less frequently and avoid high-intensity exercise and a new study has found much-improved participation in recreational group exercises after breast reduction surgery.

A new study has shown in mice that it is possible to correct the circadian disruptions seen in Alzheimer’s disease with time-restricted feeding, a type of intermittent fasting.

A new study is the first to demonstrate the ability for gene therapy to repair neural connections for those with the rare genetic brain disorder known as Hurler syndrome

MIT researchers model and map how neurons across the tiny brain of a C. elegans worm encode its behaviors, revealing many new insights about the robustness and flexibility of its nervous system.