When I was 25, I thought I was losing my hearing. I could hear clearly in normal situations, but I struggled at parties and ...

Your strong-willed child is stubborn and independent. So how do you teach them to follow your rules? Experts say consistency ...

Hyposensitivity and hypersensitivity often get mixed up. Both are types of sensory processing disorders, but many people use them interchangeably and think they mean the same thing. In reality, they ...

Researchers used brain imaging and behavioral tests to examine mescaline's effects in rodents. Mescaline altered cerebellar ...

Two experts break down what happens in the brain when you read text versus listen to an audiobook. Discover the differences between the two modalities.

Hearing loss in children has both congenital and acquired aetiologies and, for some, the cause remains unknown despite testing. Early detection strategies are essential for improved outcomes, and the ...

For millennia, people have used the psychedelic mescaline as a spiritual and religious tool. Mescaline is a naturally ...

People whose sight loss is the result of damage to incoming sensory pathways to the brain may develop the visual hallucinations of Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS). The primary feature of CBS is complex ...

The study tested 267 soldiers, finding that 20 minutes of activity strongly predicts performance on the Armed Forces Qualification Test. A U.S. government-funded study involving a new type of ...

Much like camera settings—filters, flashes and focus—affect what we notice in a final photo, the way scientists measure something can affect how we interpret and understand it. This is especially true ...

For decades, some people around the world have reported hearing a strange, sonorous background tone that others could not. Named 'The Hum', the phenomenon regularly appears on lists of the most ...