Brain/Neuroscience

[B]abies who have unusually high or low synchrony between certain brain waves — as measured by electroencephalography (EEG) — at ...

[I]n a recent study at Baylor College of Medicine, researchers made the blind see. A team led by neurosurgeon Daniel Yoshor “drew” letters ...

Demand for the mindfulness and meditation app has skyrocketed since the Covid-19 pandemic and its ripple effects began taking a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data drawn from a survey done June 24 through 30. The data ...

Sometimes referred to by its Latin translation as the "little brain", the cerebellum is located close to the brainstem and ...

In early July, [DeSean] Jackson landed himself in hot water by sharing a bad quote on Instagram, details Newsweek. In all fairness, it ...

Periodontal disease is associated with a wide range of health conditions, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes and dementia, making the ...

The risk for a person to develop dementia over a lifetime is now 13 percent lower than it was in ...

Dr. Hyochol “Brian” Ahn, professor at UTHealth’s Cizik School of Nursing, suggested that pain could be zapped away using electric ...

[A major] review identified the biggest known risk factors for dementia as smoking, excess alcohol consumption, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, head injury, depression, hearing loss and exposure to air ...

In 2018, [Kanye] West revealed he has a mental illness. Some mental health advocates are now pushing for the media ...

[A] 54-year-old woman, who had no history of drug or alcohol abuse, was found by her brother in her garden ...

Thinkers have spent an immense amount of time and ink trying to unravel mysteries, such as how consciousness works and ...

[A blood test might] be a simple way to help diagnose [Alzheimer’s, the] most common form of dementia. Developing such a ...

[July 20, Armin Raznahan] and his team published a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that not only reported reliable sex ...

[Two studies] have demonstrated that flu and pneumococcal vaccines are linked with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease. In both ...

Here's [David] Eagleman​​ and [Don] Vaughn​'s theory in nutshell: The role of dreams is to ensure that the brain's visual ...

We are highly sensitive to people around us. As infants, we observe our parents and teachers, and from them we ...

[A]bout a third of Americans are showing signs of depression or anxiety, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s about ...

For Northwestern University neuroscientist and engineer Malcolm MacIver, [a scene from the Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey where Gandalf and Bilbo ...

[T]o date the majority of studies evaluating omega-3s for averting or curtailing cognitive decline in human participants have failed to ...

[Elon] Musk confirmed that Neuralink’s technology would allow people to “listen to music directly from our chips.” He also said ...

[A]re IQ tests valid, unbiased measures of general intelligence? They certainly didn’t start out that way, says Stefan C. Dombrowski, ...

The ketogenic diet has actually been used in the treatment of epilepsy since the 1920s. It had been known that ...

Obesity is one of the major public health problems in western countries, with an estimated prevalence of up to 38%. Although ...

Using a noninvasive imaging technique, researchers found that male capuchin monkeys showed expansion in the gray matter of a brain ...

Between 1981 and 1989, 26 outbreaks of asthma were reported in [Barcelona] with many cases centred around the harbour. Local ...

A persistent question about [brain] connectomes has to do with what, if anything, distinctive wiring patterns have to do with ...