Chronic sleep deprivation is harming kids’ brains, bodies, and mental health. Fixing it requires bold action from parents, ...

Lonni Sue Johnson’s amnesia is revealing important connections between memory, personality, and consciousness.

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In a new brain scan study, neuroscientists found that telling the same story different ways activates different memory ...

Staying social lowers overall stress levels and increases levels of the feel-good hormone oxytocin, Kaiser points out. He ...

These so-called "SuperAgers" are 80 or older, with cognitive function that’s on par with an average person who is middle-aged ...

Yale scientists traced gamma brain waves to thalamus-cortex interactions. The discovery could reveal how brain rhythms shape ...

New brain imaging research has uncovered how the brain’s energy and activity reorganize as it transitions from wakefulness to ...

As neuroscientists peel back the layers of perception, they’re finding that our sense of time is less like a clock and more ...

Brain imaging showed that these two types of narratives activated distinct memory networks, which later predicted how well ...

At the edge of death, some people wake into sudden clarity. Terminal lucidity is one of the mind’s most baffling mysteries.

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