It turns out sleeping isn’t just about resting your eyes, as a new study found that even ancient creatures without eyes — or even brains — need it too.

Humans respond to environments that change at many different speeds. A video game player, for example, reacts to on-screen ...

A new brain device from Northwestern University is asking a daring question: what if information could reach your brain ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's ...

Researchers have identified a brain protein whose absence leads to memory loss and Alzheimer’s-like damage in mice. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that findings from a new study funded b ...

If you find it hard to focus after a wakeful night, it’s because your brain is busy trying to catch up on crucial ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...

Genetics, audio processing and environment can all impact how our brains connect sounds to the symbols we use to read ...

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's brain develops, with effects that last well beyond childhood. But families ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...