Brain tumors have long been treated as rogue invaders: growing, spreading, and resisting treatment on their own. But new ...

A protein capable of recording incoming chemical signals of brain cells was engineered by scientists, which could decode the ...

Scientists at the Carney Institute for Brain Science have discovered specific patterns of electrical signals in the brain that may help forecast whether a person will go on to develop Alzheimer’s ...

Tiny lab-grown brains are offering an unprecedented look at how schizophrenia and bipolar disorder disrupt neural activity.

Alzheimer's disease causes death of neurons, and researchers hypothesize this may contribute to abnormal electrical activity in the brain that leads to epileptic seizures. There appears to be a ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Jena, Germany, 1924: Working in near-isolation and with painstaking tediousness, the psychiatrist Hans Berger observes rhythmic electrical activity from the scalp of human subjects. He is convinced ...

This exploratory study in healthy young adults found that plasma sodium levels within the normal clinical range are ...

Gliomas are cancers that originate directly in the brain, instead of spreading to the brain from other parts of the body.

Imagine if you could communicate with anyone without saying a word, just by thinking. That’s the promise of a new technology developed by researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), ...

Research suggests that individuals who partake in creative activities, such as arts and crafts, musical instruments, and ...

Place cells are neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, that help the brain keep track of the body’s location in space. Arrays of these cells form a cognitive map, firing off electrical ...