In her new book Pink Brain, Blue Brain, neuroscientist Lise Eliot describes how tiny differences in the way parents treat babies actually create the gender differences many assume are inborn.

We are all suckers for learning that something going on in our brains is linked to something else going on in our brains — the brain is sorta navelgazing that way — so when a new much-emailed New York Times story said a rare form of dementia had been credited as the source of late-onset waves of sudden creativity, we…

Here's one of those nebulous studies that explains everything about the modern world: two neuroscientists made the case in the New York Times today that a recession is good news for whipping America's remaining brain cells back into working order. No wonder Fox News is so scared! Here's how it works: apparently…

New uplifting/depressing scientific development! It is actually humanly possible to have a happy loving marriage not underscored by resignation and/or evolutionary biology and/or societal expectations and/ or financial entanglements! A bunch of neuroscientists at NYU have proven that it is possible that some couples …