Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways. For a long time, scientists could only make educated guesses about when wild animals were sleeping.

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and ...

Did you know that some birds can actually sleep while flying? Learn all about this unique technique that allows birds to rest while migrating.

Music has long been described as a universal language one that reaches people even when words cannot. For autistic children, this idea is more than a metaphor.Modern neuroimaging tools such as ...

I deliberately detoured from the damage to the brain by blood sugar overload to recall the painful demise of Chioma Isabella ...

This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (statedependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level.

Parents sometimes might wonder how to help their kids stay sharp and focused, especially with the increasing demands of school and extracurricular activities. Yoga can be a great way to boost brain ...

Last week, I engaged with ChatGPT in exploring the implications of psychiatrist, neuroscientist and philosopher Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s profoundly humanistic work on brain function and the role of the ...

The brain divides vision between its two hemispheres-what's on your left is processed by your right hemisphere and vice versa-but your experience with every bike or bird that you see zipping by is ...

Picture this: you’re drifting off to sleep, but instead of closing both eyes, you keep one wide open, scanning for danger while the other half of your brain rests. Sounds like something out of a ...

Posterior Quadrant Disconnection is a surgical technique designed to suppress seizure propagation while preserving motor and sensory functions in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. Although ...

How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic ...