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Using sound to stimulate certain brain waves has the potential to help those with dementia or cognitive decline sleep better, reveals a new study. Sleep disturbances are a common feature in dementia ...

Most people assume that meditation takes weeks of dedicated practice before the brain registers anything measurable. You have to build the habit, accumulate the hours, reach some threshold of ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between our own body and the external world ...

A new theory, published in The Journal of Neuroscience by three scientists at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory ...

A new theory, published in The Journal of Neuroscience by three scientists in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory ...

If you’ve ever wondered where “you” end and the world begins, new research conducted by scientists in Sweden and France says that your sense of owning your body depends on a rhythmic set of brain ...

This video illustrates the lifespan trajectory of the alpha process and its relationship with cortical myelination (T1w/T2w). Both the predicted myelination measure (derived from conduction efficiency ...

In the back of the head (the occipital region), alpha wave activity was about 25 percent stronger, and in the middle region, the sensorimotor cortex, there was a corresponding increase in the brain’s ...