Cutting-edge depression treatments utilize cognitive control by detecting depression-linked activity in one area of the brain ...

To keep his brain healthy and memory sharp, Baibing Chen avoids a few things. He is a neurologist and epileptologist practicing at the University of Michigan.

You might not put a lot of thought into what it takes to speak, but speaking keeps your brain busy. In every conversation, multiple regions activate to process sounds, give words meaning and control t ...

A new study investigated whether patients with a rare condition in which major internal organs are reversed from their normal ...

The length of your nap and the type of sleep you get help determine the brain-boosting benefits. The 20-minute power nap -- sometimes called the stage 2 nap -- is good for alertness and motor ...

That’s not the only red flag. Neurologists have emphasized that several common modern behaviors are putting extra pressure on the aging brain. Alongside chronic sitting, the main culprits are lack of ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language-processing ...

Discover the major causes of partial paralysis from stroke and trauma to inflammatory conditions and tumors, plus warning ...

The number of people living with early-onset dementia has increased by almost 70 per cent in the past decade, yet many still ...

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony ...

A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be ...

A stroke happens when blood flow to a part of the brain is cut off, which damages brain cells. This can lead to many problems ...