An EEG (electroencephalogram) is a painless test that uses small sensors placed on the scalp to measure the brain's electrical activity. It provides a real-time readout of brain "waves"—rhythms ...

Monitoring brain tumor progression is a complex balancing act between objective imaging and subjective clinical changes. In a ...

When myelin breaks down, white matter in the brain deteriorates, a change commonly seen with aging. At the same time, microglia, the brain’s primary immune cells, can shift from protective responders ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, working with collaborators at Imperial College London and partners in Europe and the United States, have uncovered new insights into how an additional copy of ...

Researchers led by Min Zhang and Dabao Zhang of the University of California, Irvine's Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health have created the most detailed maps to date showing how genes ...

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

A neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Alberta presented his research on the neural mechanisms of ...

Turtles are able to grasp that the same object seen from different angles is not a different object, an important trait for ...

Many people refer to a stroke as the brain’s equivalent of a heart attack. A stroke occurs when there’s an interruption or ...

A protein named after a Greek goddess is reshaping how scientists think about cognitive decline — and it turns out the brain doesn't just age passively. It negotiates with aging every day, through ...

In a world saturated with stories—from ancient myths to TikTok clips—narratives knit together emotion, memory, and meaning. A new study in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that how a story is told ...