Summary: A new study discovered that randomly played sounds during sleep can actively impair memory consolidation. By ...

A research team in Freiburg has investigated how random sounds played during sleep affect the consolidation of new memories.

Most people assume that meditation takes weeks of dedicated practice before the brain registers anything measurable. You have to build the habit, accumulate the hours, reach some threshold of ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between our own body and the external world ...

People whose sleep brain waves register as biologically older than their actual age face a sharply elevated risk of ...

A good night's sleep has long been understood to help us consolidate new memories, but we don't understand how. Associations with negative feelings like fear or stress can improve recall, but ...

Researchers at UW’s Steinmetz Lab have found that the somatosensory cortex – the brain region mapping sensation throughout ...

A longitudinal study tracking children over a period of seven years has identified distinct brain-wave patterns emerging from age 9 that can forecast a child's vulnerability to anxiety or depression ...

Pea-sized brain blobs are a chatty bunch. Packed with neurons that spark with electrical activity, brain organoids—or “mini brains”—are a now popular way to study the human brain. Some organoids model ...

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