Spending less time in slow wave and REM sleep may accelerate brain atrophy in regions affected early in Alzheimer’s disease, ...

If you used Depo-Provera birth control for over a year, it’s important to pursue a meningioma or brain tumor diagnosis if you ...

Chronic nerve pain affects millions globally. The long-standing challenge of finding effective, drug-free treatments ...

ECT, or electroconvulsive therapy, uses brief, noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain to induce a seizure. Despite ...

The AI tool works its magic by analyzing brain wave activity recorded during sleep ... Haghayegh and Hu are currently designing a clinical study to test whether electrical stimulation can alter ...

Researchers believe there may be ways to boost gamma brain waves. Some very early research suggests this may have a role in mediating cognitive abilities. A test called an electroencephalogram ...

Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its implant for ... outside devices with their brain waves. It works by reading and ...

The test produces a recording of wavy lines that ... It’s been known for some time that brain wave patterns change in patients with dementia or cognitive problems caused by Alzheimer's disease ...

Waves of brain activity during sleep help consolidate memories ... and memory by a word association recall test. In the young adults, collective slow waves of activity travelled, en masse, from ...

The timing of our brain waves shapes which words we hear. Researchers used psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to test whether neural timing influences perception of more or ...

Because it is generally inadvisable to poke around in a fully functional nervous system, the researchers recruited two volunteer testers with ... activity in the brain as they imagined the various ...

This mechanism takes advantage of protective brain activity that normally ... the team also wanted to test if the occurrence of "wake" slow waves had any negative effects on cognitive function.