Getting a bad night’s sleep is no longer just about feeling tired the next day. Neurologists say chronic sleep deprivation is increasingly being understood as a root cause of several neurological ...

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, false memories are completely made up rather than a small memory error. In ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say short lapses in attention after poor sleep owe to sudden ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown cluster of brain cells that may help explain differences in social behavior ...

Reduced blood flow to the brain is thought to be a key factor in many forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's, and ...

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

Women face a significant loss of grey matter in the brain after menopause, which may explain why they are more likely to ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...