A short daytime nap has always had a bit of a reputation problem. Some people see it as laziness or something only toddlers and retirees do. In reality, a growing body of research suggests the ...

Epileptic seizures alter sleep by prolonging the stage that's central to memory formation, potentially predisposing the brain to "remember" how to trigger subsequent seizures more easily, a small ...

MIT study confirms that using AI tools for writing or any creative work is impacting you brain activity significantly, ...

While driving recently, a long-forgotten song came on the radio. I found myself singing along; not only did I know all the ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a potential new strategy to fight back against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, conditions that are linked to the toxic accumulation of ...

Aggregating ‘negative’ immunotherapy trials can uncover reproducible immune perturbations that are missed in single studies, reframing lack of clinical benefit as potentially informative biologic ...

A recent brain imaging study reveals that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder consists of at least two distinct physical subtypes. This discovery suggests that patients may eventually benefit ...

The field of systems neuroscience increasingly seeks to understand how distributed neural populations interact to support complex cognitive functions such ...

Researchers have used brain imaging to show how memories can be reactivated in the brain without them reaching conscious awareness, showing that these memories persist even when we think they have ...

Superagers’ memory capacity rivals that of younger adults. A new study suggests their brains’ robust production of new neurons may be why.