Understanding how your cognitive biases affect your investment decisions can help you avoid expensive mistakes.

If you or a loved one is over the age of 65, and has had serious changes in cognition or memory lately, then it's important ...

In my sixth year of Parkinson's, cognitive changes leave me wondering how much of this decline is due to the disease and how ...

Cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is a discipline within psychology that investigates the internal mental processes of thought such as visual processing, memory, problem solving, or language.

If a trait survives because it’s evolutionarily beneficial, then – pretty much by definition – it should be inheritable. That ...

Humans can remember various types of information, including facts, dates, events and even intricate narratives. Understanding ...

Parkinson’s disease often starts on one side of the body, and new research shows this asymmetry influences how non-motor symptoms progress.

Defending doubt means resisting the urge to retreat into moral certainty, even on our own side. It means championing the messy, iterative process of learning, individually and collectively. It means ...

The concept of a personality may sound like it’s set in stone. But personality is really much more flexible − and you can ...

While often sought after, the very act of wielding power can subtly, yet profoundly, alter our brains, diminishing our capacity for empathy and understanding. Far from being a mere personality trait, ...

Reparenting originated in the 1960s, when the therapist Jacqui Schiff encouraged her patients with schizophrenia to live with ...

"This isn’t just a consumer issue, it’s a public mental health concern," says fashion psychologist, Jennifer Heinen.