People whose sleep brain waves register as biologically older than their actual age face a sharply elevated risk of ...

When electrical activity travels across the brain, it moves like ripples on a pond. The motion of these "brain waves," first observed in the 1920s, can now be seen more clearly than ever before thanks ...

Image: A single image of a human brain using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. Credit: Dr Leon Kaufman. University Of California, San Francisco A type of ultrasound scan can detect cancer ...

Our columnist turned to science to see what happened when she tried to slow her mind.

Hans Berger recorded the first human EEG in 1924. EEG records electrical activity via 16–25 scalp electrodes. Focal “slowing” in brain waves can indicate tumors or lesions. Patients must avoid ...

A new randomized clinical trial from investigators at Mass General Brigham's Neuroscience Institute and Department of ...

Gamma brain waves are rhythmic electric processes in nerve cells called neurons. Nerve activity in the brain allows for communication throughout the brain to carry out functions such as memory, ...

In a new study published in Neuron titled, “Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms,” researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of ...

Brain structural (MRI) scans from a selection of individuals from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 taken during Wave 2 (when all participants were about 73 years old). Panel A shows global atrophy (brain ...