A new study suggests that reproducing a crucial sleep-like brain pattern in awake animals may help preserve memory and ...

The Diagnostic Window Bottleneck: Neurologists rely heavily on EEGs to diagnose epilepsy, but standard clinical sessions provide only a 20-minute snapshot of brain activity, making manual detection ...

In the parable of the blind men and the elephant, several blind men each describe a different part of an elephant they are touching—a sharp tusk, a flexible trunk, or a broad leg—and disagree about ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

A longitudinal study tracking children over a period of seven years has identified distinct brain-wave patterns emerging from age 9 that can forecast a child's vulnerability to anxiety or depression ...

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...