Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct groups — an outcome…
Scarring in their brain’s white matter does more harm than previously thought. It’s quite possible that you are one of those people with white spots…
Lancaster University researchers have discovered, for the first time, how a genetic alteration that increases the risk of developing Autism and Tourette’s impacts on the…
There have been many headlines in recent years about the potentially negative impacts contact sports can have on athletes’ brains. But a new Northwestern University…
Study shows that people can boost attention by manipulating their own alpha brain waves. Having trouble paying attention? MIT neuroscientists may have a solution for…
Researchers studying the brain found that women taking oral contraceptives, commonly known as birth control pills, had significantly smaller hypothalamus volume, compared to women not…
Researchers with the University of Cincinnati used coaxial electrospinning to create a treatment for glioblastoma multiforme. A novel engineering process can deliver a safe and…
A new miniature NMR implant measures neuronal activity. A team of neuroscientists and electrical engineers from Germany and Switzerland developed a highly sensitive implant that…
Producing better guides for medical-image analysis: Model quickly generates brain scan templates that represent a given patient population. MIT researchers have devised a method that…
Researchers using MRI have found signs of damage that may be related to inflammation in the brains of obese adolescents, according to a study being…
Do bad dreams serve a real purpose? To answer this question, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), Switzerland,…
Hot coffee or cold brew? Pizza or pasta for dinner? These are the decisions that guide our everyday lives. What computations do our brains make…
New research challenges traditional idea about relationship between alcohol use and brain size. For years, researchers have observed that alcohol consumption is associated with reduced…
Ayahuasca Compound Changes Brainwaves to Vivid ‘Waking-Dream’ State Scientists have peered inside the brain to show how taking DMT affects human consciousness by significantly altering…
The brain cortex, the outside layer of our brain often referred to as grey matter, is one of the most complex structures found in living…
Researchers studying six adults who had one of their brain hemispheres removed during childhood to reduce epileptic seizures found that the remaining half of the…
When mice learn to do a new task, their brain activities change over time as they advance from ‘novice’ to ‘expert.’ The changes are reflected…
Findings link healthy sleep to brain-wave bursts that mathematically mimic earthquakes. New research in rats shows that cortical arousals and brief awakenings during sleep exhibit…