Differences in brain shape between a present-day human (left, in blue) and a Neanderthal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints (right, in red). Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Simon ...

These findings provide some evidence that reduced slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REM) may contribute to brain atrophy, thereby increasing the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD).

By measuring the magnetic fields of the brain, researchers found that different contemplative practices uniquely change how ...

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Dr. Randall Gates from Gates Brain Health stopped by Morning Break to share why the parietal insular vestibular cortex is an important factor to be looked at when a patient ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...