These findings provide some evidence that reduced slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REM) may contribute to brain atrophy, thereby increasing the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD).

GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

Shorter slow wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep were associated with decreased volume in Alzheimer disease-vulnerable brain regions.

A lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

In the early stages of this rare hereditary disease, the brain appears to play a major role by over-activating the immune system, as shown by a recent study published in the Journal of ...

Our lives are filled with binary decisions – choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

He's now working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and ... throughout the brain, contrasting with an older view of a more monolithic ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) AI models have been developed to create "digital twins" of the mouse brain's visual cortex, enabling predictions of neural responses to new stimuli. These models ...

11. Neuroscientists inched closer last week to developing a commercial device that can instantly translate brain activity into speech for people with severe paralysis. A team of researchers from ...

Dear readers, I have a confession: I am suffering from an ailment that the younger ones call “brain rot,” the inability to think deeply after too much scrolling on my phone. These days ...

A new systematic review has identified 17 modifiable risk factors shared by at least two of three major age-related brain disorders — stroke, dementia, and late-life depression (LLD ...

Human brain cells engineered to evade detection by the immune system have successfully restored muscle control in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease 1. The study is a step towards the ...