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A new study shows that sleep spindles, brief bursts of brain activity occurring during one phase of sleep and captured by EEG, may regulate anxiety in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Stress causes the levels of Alzheimer’s proteins to rise in females’ brains but not males’ brains, according to a new study. This difference may contribute to women’s greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

Scientists studied guinea pigs’ communication to understand how the brain recognizes communication sounds regardless of accents and surrounding noise.

Neuroscientists discovered anatomical changes that occur in the white matter of visual-processing areas of the brain, in children who have congenital cataracts surgically removed.

A new study provides early evidence of a surge of activity correlated with consciousness in the dying brain.

Neuroscientists have uncovered how exploratory actions enable animals to learn their spatial environment more efficiently. Their findings could help build better AI agents that can learn faster and require less experience.

For adolescents who may get stuck in negative thought spirals, refocusing on mental imagery is a more effective distraction than verbal thoughts.

Researchers report that neuronal activity is necessary and sufficient for astrocytes to develop their complex shape, and interrupting this developmental process results in disrupted brain function.

Researchers have identified the mechanism for why and how one brain region differs in size between male and female rats. The study found that immune system cells in the brains of females consume and digest neurons to sculp a region of the brain during …

Scientists found parallels between the neural circuitry that guides locomotion in sea slugs and in more complex animals like mammals.