In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind
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As summer looms, students at dozens of schools across the country are trying hard to be in the present moment in what is known as mindfulness training.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - Harvard University students:  overachieving, bookish bores or repressed party animals? A  little of both, it seems.
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Inside the new classroom power struggle: What teachers say about pushy moms and dads who drive them crazy
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A new study suggests that music conductors are less likely to divert their attention from what they are seeing when handling complex auditory tasks.
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As a motivational speaker and executive coach, Caroline Adams Miller knows a few things about using mental exercises to achieve goals. But last year, one exercise she was asked to try took her by surprise.
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Hearing aids can reduce brain strain and allow people to remember things better. Bodyhack reports from AAAS in San Francisco.
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The Manhattan School of Music is trying to get out of the shadow âof that other school.â
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Children&#39;s brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them. That&#39;s the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of
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An effort to recalibrate the brain of a child suffering from sensory processing disorder using light, sound and motion therapy is successful.
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Teachers are going to have to make some changes.
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A new generation of psychologists is exploring the way people change what they think and believe in order to achieve peace of mind. Happy birthday, 'cognitive dissonance.'
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Biologists are turning up evidence that humans are not, physically or even mentally, in a class by themselves.
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Researchers talk to college students about growing up with attention problems.
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The world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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A professor who teaches music healing and jazz improvisation classes researches the relationship between music and the human heart.
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Our brains can turn down our ability to see to help them listen even harder to music and complex sounds, say experts.
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.