Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Words often fail to describe how fervent of a force love is—in ...

As emotions rise and fall in everyday life, your brain keeps up, constantly adjusting. These transitions between feelings—like joy, sadness, or fear—aren’t just random reactions. They’re part of a ...

Each year, nearly half a million people worldwide die from brain aneurysms. In the U.S., an estimated 6.7 million people have an unruptured brain aneurysm, which means about one in 50 people might ...

Scientists reveal how sleep protects brain cells, manages metabolic damage, and may help explain links to Alzheimer’s disease.

Your behavior today could affect your brain activity in two weeks' time, new research suggests. These findings have significant implications for our mental health as well as our attention, cognition ...

C OVID-19 may leave a lasting impression on the brain, even in people who fully recover from their infection. New research ...

Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and attention are wired. The same circuitry that helps you recognize a friend’s ...

Adults who did regular aerobic exercise for a year had brains that appeared about one year younger on MRI scans than people ...