You know how fast things can spiral when your brain wants to go in a hundred directions at once, but work still expects focus ...

Some of the most common treatments for Parkinson's disease have side effects that impair sensible decision making. A study has now identified a part of the brain where these side effects might be ...

Motherhood rarely goes as planned. For moms with ADHD, each day can feel like a race with no finish line, and impulse control ...

With strengthened attention and focus skills, teens become better at persevering, planning for goal achievement, organizing, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A small lab-based study found that a 12-week cycling program improved inhibitory control over six weeks.

Impulse control disorders (ICDs) are a class of psychiatric disorders characterized by difficulties controlling aggressive or antisocial impulses. Because they can involve physical violence, theft, or ...

In the split second that is needed to view a stop sign and react to it, our brain navigates a complex process that transitions seamlessly from perception to action control. This ability to halt or ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Thin people may be able to summon more mental defenses to resist tempting, high-calorie foods than obese people, researchers said on Monday. Brain scans of thin people who looked ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital have uncovered a new cell type in the human brain. The study published ...