After traumatic brain injury (TBI), some patients may recover completely, while others retain severe disabilities. Accurately ...

The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ...

Brain volume and function are altered in individuals with opioid use disorder, a new Yale study finds. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI), researchers observed the ...

The field of cognitive neuroscience has increasingly turned its attention to the detrimental effects of hypoxia on brain and cognitive functions. While significant progress has been made in ...

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

A new study shows that balanced neural inhibition in the hippocampus is crucial for recognition memory, the ability to remember objects we’ve recently encountered.

Understanding the dynamic neural mechanisms of sleep-wake cycles is a major challenge in sleep science and neuroengineering.