Could gauging Aβ and tau accumulation in healthy older adults be as simple as measuring their brain activity during sleep? Researchers led by Matthew Walker, University of California, Berkeley, think ...

Everything’s a little off when you haven’t had any sleep: you can’t remember where you put your cell phone, your eyes burn, ...

A subject in the sleep inertia study wearing an EEG cap. An alarm goes off, shocking you into consciousness. You blearily mute the too-loud beeping and try to reacquaint yourself with reality, ...

The corpus callosum (in red) connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres and facilitates communication between the so-called "right brain" and "left brain." Source: Life Science ...

Mass General Brigham researchers developed an AI tool to accurately predict which patients will develop cognitive impairment over the next five years by analyzing brain wave patterns during sleep Mass ...

Large oscillations of CSF inflow to the brain appeared about every 20 seconds and were tightly coupled to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals of blood flow and electroencephalogram ...

Sleep is not just a period of rest, but a time when our brain actively works to organize our memories. A recent study ...

Learn how MIT researchers uncovered how our brains try to clean themselves mid-day, costing us attention in the process.

Researchers report that the more time reindeer spend ruminating, the less time they spend in non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep. EEG recordings revealed that reindeer's brainwaves during ...