Can the brain function when its architecture is altered? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) demonstrates that ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

An international research team has uncovered new insights into healthy brain aging. The researchers found that aging leads to ...

The Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) in the Institute of Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, Korea, is developing new neuroimaging approaches to explore biophysics, physiology, and biology, and ...

Obstructive sleep apnea disrupts brain function in several ways, including low oxygen levels, interrupted sleep, and vascular risk. Several regions throughout the brain may shrink, and the ...

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, ...

The depth of the brain’s unconscious, taken-for-granted functions and complex conscious abilities comes into sharp relief when they are disrupted in cases of brain disease and injury. Whether the ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD By seamlessly tracking brain growth from the womb into early life, researchers uncover when key brain regions surge and how subtle sex differences emerge before birth. Study: ...

One key role of sleep involves cerebrospinal fluid, which surrounds and protects the brain. During sleep, CSF helps remove ...

These cells act like cleaners. They remove waste, broken proteins, and old cell parts so that the brain can continue working properly. However, new research suggests that this helpful cleaning process ...