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, ...

A new kind of computer model—grounded in real biology—lets researchers simulate how brain circuits make decisions and adapt ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT), a region that regulates stress and emotion.

What compels someone to keep engaging in alcohol use, even if it damages their health, relationships and well-being? A new study from Scripps Research offers an important clue: a small midline brain ...