Contributor: Nina R. Eastes The idea of a “smarter brain pill” gets a lot of hype. But behind the buzz, a quieter story has ...

Neuroscientists have found new evidence that learning to play an instrument may be good for the brain. Musically trained children perform better at attention and memory recall and have greater ...

Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or questions to the editors at [email protected]. Ever wonder about those strange designations we use throughout Northwestern to identify alumni of the ...

Normal aging is associated with progressive cognitive decline. But can we train our brain to delay this process? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), HES-SO Geneva and EPFL has discovered ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Université de Montréal report that extensive musical training can steady the body in space, both with and without guiding sounds, during a blindfolded ...