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Relationship expert Pepper Schwartz and professor of psychology Gary Marcus talk about what happens in our brain when we fight and what it says about us as individuals. (TODAY)

Four years ago, investors gingerly handed over seed money to Lumosity, a startup creating brain games. Today they're happily tossing the same company $32 million

In late May, Patrick Kennedy, the former congressman and the son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, gathered a group of luminaries to launch " One Mind for Research ," which coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of his uncle's call to trek to our natural satellite

The article, “Religious factors and hippocampal atrophy in late life,” by Amy Owen and colleagues at Duke University represents an important advance in our growing understanding of the relationship between the brain and religion. The study showed greater atrophy in the hippocampus in individuals who identify with specific religious groups as well as those with no religious affiliation. It is a surprising result, given that many prior studies have shown religion to have potentially beneficial effects on brain function, anxiety, and depression.

Entrepreneurs can be reluctant to pull away from work. But slogging it out through the summer may not be good for your healthor your business

The search for ways to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease has been stymied in part by difficulties in reliably delivering therapeutics into the brain to prevent proteins there from depositing fibrous plaques that damage synapses and ultimately wreck one's cognitive abilities. Researchers have experimented with antibodies, peptides and even nanoparticles to find some way of effectively preventing plaque formation but these efforts have yet to yield an anti-Alzheimer's drug.

Once again, science is confirming what we have always suspected. This time, after years of referring to Apple's customer base as the "cult of Mac" or "cult of Apple", a group of UK neuroscientists have been able to demonstrate that when you compare the brain MRI's of Apple fans versus those taken of people who consider themselves "very religious", well guess what

Nanoparticles have been investigated in recent years as tools for defending the brain against neurotoxic proteins that may contribute to the onset of several different neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease . Such proteins, in particular amyloid-beta peptides, are thought to play a role depositing fibrous plaques on the brain that damage synapses (the contact points between neurons) and lead to a decline in cognitive capabilities .

Being an Apple fan is almost a religion, according to one pseudo-scientific study that looked at brain scans of Apple worshipers. Great for Apple--but what's in it for you? Just imagine the marketing consequences..

The inaugural post of Eileen P. Gunn's new Inc.com blog, Start Me Up. Being an entrepreneur energizes me.

Pro hockey player's family donates his brain to Boston University scientists doing research on degenerative brain condition

It may still sound futuristic, but the era of mind-controlled machines is here. An electrode is implanted in or sits on top of the brain, and records patterns of neurons firing; this pattern is then translated, via an algorithm, into computer language

The blood-brain barrier keeps bacteria out--which is good. But for patients with brain tumors, it also keeps out life-saving medicine. A startup thinks it can fix that by using ultrasound

In philosophy of mind, a “cerebroscope” is a fictitious device, a brain-computer interface in today’s language, which reads out the content of somebody’s brain. An autocerebroscope is a device applied to one’s own brain.

Think about the last time you got bored with the TV channel you were watching and decided to change it with the remote control. Or a time you grabbed a magazine off a newsstand, or raised a hand to hail a taxi