Slow, sleep-like brain waves persist in part of the brain that has been surgically disconnected from the rest of the organ even though the person is awake. The findings 1, published in PLoS Biology, ...

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More than 67 million Americans take melatonin, which can be used to treat insomnia, and analysts predict sales of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

No one is suggesting that a catchy song can completely eliminate serious pain. But several recent studies have suggested that ...

When we are engaged in a task, our brain's auditory system changes how it works. One of the main auditory centers of the brain, the auditory cortex, is filled with neural activity that is not ...

Researchers have discovered some good news about the march of time, and there’s less to dread and more to celebrate.

AI-generated data is known as synthetic data. Such data can be used for amazing purposes. I explore a study at Stanford ...

Activating specific neurons in a part of the brain that serves as the body's master circadian pacemaker caused mice to eat ...

How is it that we all see the world in a similar way? Imagine sitting with a friend in a café, both of you looking at a phone screen displaying a dog running along the beach. Although each of our ...

Previous research investigating sex differences in brain ageing has shown mixed results, Ravndal adds. Several studies have ...