Epilepsy is best known for seizures, but many people with the condition also experience much more frequent and subtler disruptions. These brief bursts of abnormal brain activity, called interictal ...

Manji is a professor at Oxford University, a professor (adjunct) at Yale University, and co-chair of the U.K. government Mental Health Goals program. Nestler is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz dean of ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading edge of science. Patterson, 41, had a brain-computer interface implanted in ...

Imagination is one of the most powerful things our brains can do. We can relive past events while taking a walk, rehearse future conversations through inner speech or sense the heat of a fire without ...

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A study suggests that 20 minutes of moderate cycling increases brain activity in the hippocampus, a region critical for learning and memory. This increased hippocampal activity may support memory ...

Numerous studies have confirmed that intelligence is associated with a specific set of religious and political beliefs, including liberalism, anti-racism, free speech, tolerance of others and being ...

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A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...

When study participants took an attention test while sleep-deprived, their brain scans showed signs of a sleep-like state linked to the brain’s nightly cleaning process. This could be the brain’s ...

Don’t sleep on naps. Getting some quick shut-eye has been associated with several health benefits, such as boosting creativity, improving parenting and increasing joy, a term nicknamed “nappiness“.

Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost memory Nora Bradford, Quanta Magazine Some solutions are reached incrementally ...