Brain

An analysis of nearly 100,000 people has found that those who get too little sleep each night face an increased risk of dozens of diseases. So when are we going to start taking sleep seriously when it comes to our long-term health and lifespan?

A groundbreaking experiment has dramatically advanced the field of lab-grown neural models, with researchers fusing a human cortical organoid with another animal's nervous system. Now, scientists are weighing up the ethics versus the potential.

Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is commonly added to plastics to make them more flexible. It may also affect genes that play a critical role in brain development, promoting symptoms of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Exercise helps us sleep better, so researchers wondered if it could also protect our memory from the corrosive effects of not enough slumber as well. Turns out, the results suggest a kind of biological cheat code that protects our brains.

If you find it hard to focus or stay present in the moment, you can now buy a device that tells you just how often your mind drifts elsewhere. That's the thinking behind the first wearable from a wellness startup called Atlas.

In a peer-reviewed paper recently published in Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers bring together testable claims from a number of different fields to argue that the conditions surrounding an evening fire shaped the evolution of spoken language.

New findings by a team of researchers from the US and Australia have complicated an ongoing debate over whether a total joint arthroplasty may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

For the first time, scientists find that the male brain is wired to motivate men to drink when they're lonely, while the opposite appears true when it comes to women. It highlights how sex-specific neural pathways inform our behaviors.

Cognitive decline is far more common among individuals over the age of 65 years, but some genetic mutations cause the same characteristic loss of memory and mental processing in children. But the good news is that we now know how to treat it.

A record five-year, single-site brain-imaging study now found evidence of the role the environment plays in resynchronizing the brain’s networks following a dose of psilocybin – the chemical that makes some mushrooms “magic”.

We're closer to understand who is most likely to feel invisible aftershocks following even small earthquakes. While they feel real at the time, the phantom quakes may just be your brain trying to make sense one of the weirdest sensations on Earth.

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) scientists have developed a form of neurological pacemaker that adapts in real time to a patient’s walking and could address one of the most disabling and hard-to-treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.