Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...

Recent research has shed light on the complex neural processes that transition our brains from sleep to wakefulness, ...

Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, ...

Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, ...

When you wake up in the morning, it might feel like your brain just switched on at the ring of an alarm, although you still ...

This week, researchers reported the discovery of four Late Bronze Age stone megastructures likely used for trapping herds of ...

A 9-year-old girl walked slowly down the clinic hallway. 10 months earlier, her days had been dominated by seizures—sudden ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

The team, led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Ardem Patapoutian, alongside Li Ye of Scripps Research and Bosiljka Tasic ...

Waves of synchronized, coordinated neuronal activity have been observed and studied in the brain for over a century. But for ...

The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of ...