For long, potted plants have been touted as a solution to the sick building syndrome, a range of symptoms that leaves people feeling tired and irri

Consuming vegetables contaminated with heavy metals and pesticides can lower a child s intelligence, warns a study

Walking improves mental faculties of the elderly

Mercury can find its way to the brain, warn scientists

Scientists find two different ways the brain does maths. This could be a boon for children who do not learn maths in their mother tongue

The chronically depressed are more likely to develop cancer

Research on mice reveals a vital link in the search for a cure against Alzheimer s menace

The human brain s plasticity means that it may be learning and adapting even as you read this

Low cholesterol levels may be good for the heart but can cause depression

People who seek fulfilment only in material well being are not satisfied, says the shrink, looking at the dark side of the American dream