The brain never rests: even during deep sleep or under anesthesia, it maintains rhythmic electrical activity known as slow ...

New research shows that slow oscillations in the brain, which occur during deep sleep and anesthesia, are guided by neuronal excitability rather than structural anatomy.

From rebellious to creative, or even strange, we can be so many things during our childhood or teenage years. But that’s what ...

A tiny brain blip during silent speech revealed the shocking truth: Your brain plans words by imagining sounds, not movements ...

A song pops into your head—and it’s exactly what you needed to hear. Coincidence? Maybe not. Your brain is sending signals ...

A sexologist has revealed that some people may not be able to have an orgasm via hands free masturbation because they find reaching climax difficult.

New research suggests that the most ancient evolutionary parts of the brain could be contributing to consciousness.

The leading theories of consciousness suggest that the outer layer of the human brain, called the cortex (in blue in figure 1 ...

Hypnosis can significantly improve patients' tolerance of masks to help them breathe when they are suffering from acute ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Hypnosis can significantly improve patients' tolerance of masks to help them breathe when they are suffering from acute respiratory failure, according to a pilot study presented at the European ...

Most of us know the feeling: you lie in bed replaying the same scenario, asking the same "what if?" questions, and no matter how many times you turn it over, […] ...