The Brain in the News
Check out the latest news about your brain – and the brain of everyone else – right here! And we invite you to send us news items, scientific studies, weird video clips, etc. that you find yourself.
Dessert stomach emerges in the brain
ScienceDaily - 2025
New study shows how the brain reacts emotionally to the real world
UC Berkeley News - 2024
How Stress Affects the Brain
American Brain Foundation - 2024
How Social Isolation Affects the Brain
Psychology Today - 2023
How does the immune system keep tabs on the brain?
Washington University Medicine - 2021
Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health
Yale Environment 360 - 2020
How bacteria are changing your mood
BBC - 2018
Scientists find fear, courage switches in brain
Stanford University School of Medicine - 2018
How gratitude changes you and your brain
Greater Good Magazine - 2017
Mindfulness
CBS News - 2014
Neural Responses Reveal Our Optimistic Bent
Scientific American - 2012
A Neuroscientist's Quest to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain
Scientific American - 2012
Buddhism, Cosmology and Evolution
HuffPost - 2012
How the Internet Is Changing Our Brain
HuffPost - 2012
How to Have More Insights
HuffPost - 2012
Mindful Eating as Food for Thought
New York Times - 2012
How Exercise Benefits the Brain
New York Times - 2011
Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony
New York Times - 2011
How Tanning Changes the Brain
New York Times - 2011
Is meditation the push-up for the brain? Study shows practice may have potential to change brain's physical structure
ScienceDaily - 2011
The Neurobiology of Bliss–Sacred and Profane – Sex in the brain, and what it reveals about the neuroscience of deep pleasure
Scientific American - 2011
Regimens: Noise Canceling, Without Headphones
New York Times - 2011
How Meditation May Change the Brain
New York Times - 2011
Searching the Brain for the Roots of Fear
New York Times - 2011
Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in eight weeks
ScienceDaily - 2011
Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop
New York Times - 2009
Smile As You Read This: Language That Puts You In Touch With Your Bodily Feelings
ScienceDaily - 2009
Adult Brain Can Change Within Seconds
ScienceDaily - 2009
Lotus Therapy
The New York Times - 2008
Meditation May Increase Gray Matter
ScienceDaily - 2009
Compassion Meditation Changes The Brain
ScienceDaily - 2008
How Your Brain Looks at Race
Newsweek - 2008
Mental Reserves Keep Brains Agile
The New York Times - 2007
Meditation May Fine-tune Control Over Attention
ScienceDaily - 2007
Faith in the Brain
Study Suggests Meditation Can Help Train Attention
The New York Times - 2007
The Brain on the Stand
The New York Times - 2007
Revealing Secret Intentions In The Brain
Science Daily - 2007
Happiness 101
The New York Times - 2007
A Neuroscientific Look at Speaking in Tongues
The New York Times - 2006
Femme Mentale
SFGATE - 2006
The Movie in Your Head
Scientific American - 2005
Meditation 'brain training' clues
BBC News - 2005
Meditation skills of Buddhist monks yield clues to brain's regulation of attention
Medical News Today - 2005
Spirituality, Religious Practice May Slow Progression Of Alzheimer's Disease
Science Daily - 2005
Meditation Alters Brain Structure
UrbanDharma - 2004
New Brain Studies and Meditation
ArrowRiver - 2003
Can Buddhists transcend mental reservations?
BioPsychiatry - 2003