We are having the wrong conversation with young people about brain health. We tend to frame it as something that matters decades from now, something tied to aging or genetics. But the truth is far more immed...

Loneliness is no longer a private struggle, it’s a public-health issue that we’ve discussed quite a bit in my recent books. Research increasingly links social isolation to cognitive decline, depression, card...

For decades, we’ve been asking the wrong question about Alzheimer’s disease. We have focused intensely on what to remove, amyloid plaques, without fully understanding who is responsible for removing them. Th...

We tend to think of emojis as harmless, simple digital decorations that soften language, add humor, or clarify tone. But emerging neuroscience suggests something far more consequential. A recent EEG-based st...