With the Obama administration planning a major initiative to map the brain, there’s more attention focused on what all of that new information will mean for how we see ourselves and how we take moral and legal responsibility for our actions. David Eagleman, a neuroscientist who directs Baylor College of Medicine’s ...

It’s the third week of the new year, and many of us are realizing that those New Year’s resolutions are getting harder to keep. So TIME asked Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at Florida State University and co-author of the bestselling book, Willpower for tips, gleaned from the latest scientific ...

Overexposure to bright light not only keeps you up at night, but animal studies show it may be linked to depressive symptoms and learning problems. That’s what Samer Hattar, a biology professor at Johns Hopkins University and his team found while studying mice exposed to repeated cycles of bright light. Previous ...