Yale scientists traced gamma brain waves to thalamus-cortex interactions. The discovery could reveal how brain rhythms shape perception and disease. For more than a century, scientists have observed ...

PITTSBURGH - Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy ...

Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, ...

Researchers have pinpointed how synchronized, coordinated gamma activity emerges in the brain, showing the oscillations arise due to an interaction between the thalamus and the cortex.

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In June 2020, Brody Huber arrived home from a camping trip early, complaining of a headache and insisting he needed a night ...

The finding comes from data of more than 550,000 adults ages 56 to 72, as well as genetics information from 2.4 million study ...

When you wake up in the morning, it might feel like your brain just switched on at the ring of an alarm, although you still ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you ...

Neuroscientists probing the boundary between sleep and awareness are finding many types of liminal states, which help explain ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...