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Creativity is notoriously difficult to study as it unfolds, but musical improvisation offers a rare chance to watch spontaneous idea-generation in action.

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We celebrate entrepreneurship as a force for disruption, yet the modern entrepreneur is increasingly trained to optimize ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

By increasing neuroplasticity, psychedelics may both enhance creativity and be useful for treating a variety of psychiatric ...

A lot of brain development happens early in life, but researchers don't have a strong understanding of how a baby's brain ...

Many great discoveries have emerged from the "twilight" state between wakefulness and sleep. It's possible to use this state ...

The nervous system resets not only through rest, but also through curiosity. Exposure to new experiences—reading outside your ...

ATHENS, Ga. — Youth from low-income families face a higher risk of suicide, but improving sleep quality may help mitigate ...

Mood disorders include distinct coactivation patterns (CAPs); however, these patterns may not be specific to a diagnosis, according to study results published in Molecular Psychiatry. Previous ...

MRI signals don’t always match the brain’s true activity levels, overturning a core assumption used in tens of thousands of studies.