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

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Neuroscientists probing the boundary between sleep and awareness are finding many types of liminal states, which help explain ...

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

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

While stuttering was believed to have purely psychological causes up until about 30 years ago, scientists today attribute it ...