Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the ...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear and watery liquid that flows in and around the brain and spinal cord. Its functions ...

Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one ...

After you close your eyes, there is actually a certain point that brain activity falls off sharply, plunging until it reaches ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long ...

In Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common cause of dementia, microglia (the immune cells of the brain) can behave in very different ways. At times, they help protect the brain, and at other ...

Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like ...

Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying ...