A study found that individuals with lower cognitive flexibility were more likely to reject vaccines due to personal beliefs. The findings, published in BMC Psychology, highlight the psychological factors shaping vaccination attitudes.

These findings could help guide the development of new treatments for psychiatric and neurological disorders.  

A new study suggests pandemic-related anxiety may have fueled orthorexia nervosa—an unhealthy obsession with clean eating. The findings reveal how fear of COVID-19, combined with low cognitive flexibility, contributed to disordered eating behaviors in U.S.…

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine discover a genetic twist that sets humans apart: a DNA region called HAR123 that influences cognitive flexibility and brain cell development, providing insights into human evolution and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Abstract. While the beneficial impacts of meditation are increasingly acknowledged, its underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. We examined

MIT researchers tested their theory of spatial computing, which holds that the brain recruits and controls ad hoc groups of neurons for cognitive tasks by applying brain waves to patches of the cortex.

Bilingual people use largely the same brain system to understand meaning in both their languages …

A study co-authored by a Brown University computational cognitive neuroscientist showed how an SSRI improves cognitive flexibility, suggesting a new way of thinking about obsessive-compulsive disorder.