Sweeping waves of electrical activity may help the brain transform fragmented visual signals into a stable picture of the world. Scientists propose that these traveling waves coordinate perception, ...

Emerging evidence suggests that only certain types of training produce meaningful benefits, and those benefits may differ ...

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Spikes in physical alertness are a sign that the brain is hitting the “refresh” button to help it better process new and ...

Ears are built to listen to sounds from the world around us, but for some people, the sound comes from within. Tinnitus ...

We love ChatGPT and Claude, but when MIT Media Lab researcher Nataliya Kos’myna, PhD, told us the impact of AI on our brains ...

Neurologists often use EEGs to help diagnose epilepsy, but routine recordings offer only about a 20-minute snapshot of brain activity. Without a seizure captured during that window, clinicians must ...

Scientists are searching for better ways to spot dementia before memory loss becomes obvious. Dementia develops slowly over ...

Anesthesia takes away your conscious experience of the world without taking away your brain’s activity. A team in Kyoto went looking for the physical thing that actually goes missing. “Count backward ...

A new mouse study from Tohoku University has uncovered a surprising energy imbalance during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

A person’s sleeping brain may reveal warning signs of dementia long before memory problems begin. Researchers used machine learning to analyze EEG recordings from about 7,000 adults and found that an ...

Untreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves.