For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known ...

A recent study of sleep lab volunteers reveals that caffeine impairs essential brain functions at night. Here’s what happens.

Throughout history, drums have occupied a unique place in the cultural, psychological, and social lives of societies. They are tools of ritual and celebration, instruments of war and peace, and ...

A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience has uncovered how the human brain’s internal timing mechanisms shift during sleep. Researchers analyzed electrical recordings from 106 patients and ...

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Turns out, there might really be something to the reports of people seeing their lives flash before their eyes during ...

This year is the centennial of the discovery of human brain waves. Few people know the story of that startling finding, because the true story was suppressed and lost to history. Almost two ...

For the first time, researchers led by Professor Dr. Petra Ritter's team have succeeded in explaining the propagation of traveling waves of activity in the human brain using a computer simulation.

Related: Neuralink shows first human patient using brain implant to ... codify people and bias against people based on their brain waves and other neural information,” Pauzauskie said.

Brain waves are patterns of electrical oscillations ... Advances in understanding traveling waves offer significant potential for human-computer interaction. In terms of both research and ...

This can accurately measure the timing of brain waves as they occur ... Only now are we starting to see some evidence in human studies. The most commonly-studied brain states in both rodents ...

Researchers studying the brain’s final moments have gained new insight into the “wave of death” that occurs before a brain’s activity fully flatlines. When neural activity stops ...