It's easy for kids to get distracted when they're doing schoolwork, studying, or doing any other task that requires ...

Focusing on a task for a long period can be difficult for anyone, but especially kids. Enter brain breaks. Brain breaks are short, physical activities that, when interspersed with periods of ...

A study of nearly 38,000 adults shows that the number of kids correlates with coordination of brain regions’ activities — regardless of parents’ sex.

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and the author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain. As part of the Woman's Hour ...

The best part? Brain teasers aren’t just for kids or hardcore puzzle lovers — anyone who enjoys a good mental workout can have fun with them. Studies even show that challenging your brain with ...