Cerebral blood flow is essential for normal brain function and often perturbed in neurological disease. If one shines a ...

At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your brain has to work surprisingly hard to judge that boundary. Now, ...

A new study shows that 20 minutes of cardio can trigger memory-linked brain waves in the hippocampus, offering the first direct evidence of this effect in humans.

By measuring the magnetic fields of the brain, researchers found that different contemplative practices uniquely change how ...

Sleep works magic on memory. You might’ve felt these frustrations before: Trying to learn a guitar riff, shoot a free-throw, or nail a difficult phrase in a new language, but despite hours of practice ...

Slow waves that usually only occur in the brain during sleep are also present during wakefulness in people with epilepsy and may protect against increased brain excitability associated with the ...

The brain divides vision between its two hemispheres-what's on your left is processed by your right hemisphere and vice versa-but your experience with every bike or bird that you see zipping by is ...

A recent study has revealed how the psychedelic brew ayahuasca alters brain waves to induce profound mystical experiences and vivid, spontaneous thoughts. By recording electrical brain activity before ...

Sleep and wake: they’re totally distinct states of being that define the boundaries of our daily lives. For years, scientists have measured the difference between these instinctual brain processes by ...

At a classroom outside Syracuse, students are doing more than just read about science. They’re actually hearing it. Students at Manlius Pebble Hill School are listening to ...