Daytime “wash cycles” help clear waste from the brain but cause momentary drops in attention after sleepless nights.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered that the gut's rhythmic muscle movements could help explain how blood vessels in the brain expand and contract together.

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Fast-paced brain training over just 10 weeks potentially offset a decade of cognitive decline. Learn how speed games may ...

Study links female reproductive cycle to brain learning processes, revealing how estrogen influences dopamine activity and ...

A single neural thread in the brain may explain why some people who are hurt lash out while others turn the pain inward. A ...

Your brain’s “emergency brake” goes quiet during rival defeats. Highly engaged fans showed reduced activity in the brain region that normally keeps aggressive impulses in check, potentially explaining ...

Researchers have discovered a network between neurons in the brain that could be the pathway for the spread of plaques that ...

Researchers say the new state-funded institute could speed discoveries, prevention efforts and treatments for ...

On a cutting surface inside a Scaife Hall laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Julia Kofler examines a brain, pointing ...

Scientists at EPFL have unraveled the mystery behind why biological nanopores, tiny molecular holes used in both nature and ...