An EEG (electroencephalogram) is a painless test that uses small sensors placed on the scalp to measure the brain's ...

Throughout the brain's cortex, neurons are arranged in six distinctive layers, which can be readily seen with a microscope. A team of MIT neuroscientists has now found that these layers also show ...

A study introduces a scalable 2D human neuron platform to probe how brain-like rhythms emerge and how specific drugs reshape them, aiding epilepsy and autism research.

Psychedelics can quiet the brain’s visual input system, pushing it to replace missing details with vivid fragments from ...

Brain waves can be manipulated while in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a sleep stage associated with memory and cognition, a new study from the University of Surrey finds. Novel technology, using ...

In a recent blog I discussed how bursts of brain activity during NREM sleep correspond with whether or not people recall dreams (see here). A recent paper published in Social, Cognitive and Affective ...

Two recent studies conducted by scientists at the University Health Network and the University of Toronto provide new ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that damage to small blood vessels in the hereditary disease CADASIL may disrupt important brain functions in the hippocampus, a region involved in memory.

Recent research has uncovered intriguing findings regarding brain function post-mortem, with scientists noting increased gamma oscillations 15 minutes following death. Building on earlier animal ...