Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.

Research compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote lecture notes by hand during the same time.

Typing may be faster than writing by hand, but it’s less stimulating for the brain, according to research published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. After recording the brain activity of ...

Creating or finding a visual representation of the story helps your brain achieve the sort of global ignition that lights up the neuronal network related to writing the particular project you’re ...