An Israeli expert on music and the mind explains that listening to the right tunes really can reduce cortisol levels and improve your mood, whether you are in pain, lonely or sad.

Attraction is not just about looks; it's a mix of physical and psychological forces challenging what we think we know.

Providing all aspects of beauty, from aesthetics, lashes ... old Mark Hammond was diagnosed with a rare type of cancerous brain tumour – medulloblastoma – in 2015. Following gruelling and ...

Born in the ’80s at the beginning of Seattle’s rock-music renaissance, the grunge aesthetic didn’t truly blossom until the early ’90s. But before it became a full-fledged fashion phenomena ...

The “aesthetic chills” phenomenon often feels ... The shiver is like your body poking you to register the contrast between what your brain expects to feel and what your emotions are feeling.

Zalevska is among the more than 200 wounded troops and civilians who have been treated by a network of aesthetic medicine specialists across Ukraine, healing the badly scarred and burned free of ...

A crucial molecule for brain health acts as a garbage collector of other fat molecules (lipids), despite also being a lipid itself. So for more than half a century, researchers have puzzled over how ...

Zero’s latest surprise may be in just how well the brain learns to handle that abstraction. Now studies show that the concept of zero is processed in similar ways to many numbers and can be ...

At the same time, the brain's reward center, which governs pleasure and motivation, is highly active. When adolescents experience awe, these two brain regions can interact meaningfully ...

“It took an eternity until mathematicians finally invented zero as a number.” Perhaps that’s no surprise given that the concept can be difficult for the brain to grasp. It takes children longer to ...

According to a survey published in March, 87% of Americans are concerned about age-related memory loss and a decline in brain function as they grow older, yet only 32% believe they can take action ...