An organized tide of brain waves, blood and spinal fluid pulsing through a sleeping brain may flush away neural toxins that cause Alzheimer’s and other diseases. When you sink into a deep sleep, a ...

How many times have you heard that advice? Perhaps you’ve even urged it on someone else. The command is a common one, issued in schools, in the workplace, amid the trials of everyday life. Its refrain ...

Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the brain draw powerful indirect connections. Disabling this circuit erased the ...

Neuroscientists used a new, gene-based classification of mouse brain cell types and additional information about neuron shape to uncover two new types of neurons involved in movement. (Credit: Michael ...

Brain maps of cellular, neurotransmitter and mitochondrial distributions, representing the microscopic biological foundations of large-scale brain networks. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Two years ago, Pip Taylor suffered serious bruising to her brain after tripping and cracking her head on a flight of stairs — an injury that now appears to have endowed her with an incredible ability ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...