A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a role in the regulation of brain states associated with wakefulness and ...

A new study from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center suggests that the brain’s protective barrier remains intact ...

A tiny brain blip during silent speech revealed the shocking truth: Your brain plans words by imagining sounds, not movements ...

The most basic assumption about how psychedelic medicine works is at least partially flawed: Psychedelics are altering not ...

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This challenges the idea that sleep is solely brain-driven, instead suggesting it ...

The human brain is one of the most complex organs in the world, and it consumes a lot of the energy that people take in by eating food (about 20 percent of the daily calorie intake). To make it more ...