From the colors you wear to the sounds and scents around you, small sensory choices can influence your mood, lower stress, ...

Acute or short-lived pain, despite its bad reputation, is usually a lifesaver. It acts as a transient negative sensory ...

Acute or short-lived pain, despite its bad reputation, is usually a lifesaver. It acts as a transient negative sensory experience that helps us avoid danger.

Chronic pain affects nearly 50 million Americans, yet new research reveals the brain may have an internal switch that can turn it down.

Introducing premature visual experience by opening the closed eyelids early in ferrets caused many cells in the primary visual cortex to mature improperly.

The updated rooms give children short breaks to regulate their nervous systems so they can return to class ready to ...

How could such young people conduct themselves with so much composure and selflessness? Psychological research shows that ...

If Peter Pan knew of Long Island’s open play centers that inspire imagination, he probably wouldn’t fly back to Never Land. Kids can create their own hands-on adventures inside playhouses, pretend ...

A Nebraska woman says a jump meant to thrill visitors at a haunted house in Kansas City, Missouri, left her with two broken ankles.

When we recall something familiar or explore a new situation, the brain does not always use the same communication routes. An international study led by Claudio Mirasso at the Institute for ...

A Nebraska woman is suing The Beast, a haunted house in Kansas City, for allegedly dangerous conditions that left her with ...

Coupling between fast and slow brain activity frequencies. Warm-colored areas indicate stronger interaction, in this case between gamma-band frequencies (Y axis) and theta-band frequencies (X axis).