New research reveals something unsettling about human psychology: our brains tend to synchronize with people we trust, which can reduce vigilance and make us more vulnerable to deception from those ...

You don’t have to look far to find reports of people who have used VR headsets and then felt ‘off’ after removing them. While motion sickness is surely the most well-known post-VR symptom, a subset of ...

A large-scale dietary trial has shown that a green-Mediterranean diet can slow brain aging by altering key blood proteins linked to neurodegeneration.

A study by the MIT Media Lab this June says the use of artificial intelligence in essay writing decreases brain connectivity, ...

Scientists have identified a new therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative diseases by boosting a protein called PI31, which ensures proteasomes reach synapses to clear protein waste.

One fundamental feature of neurodegenerative diseases is a breakdown in communication. Even before brain cells die, the ...

Using lasers, researchers triggered optical illusion signals in mouse brains, uncovering how the brain fills in missing details in vision.

The AI models, which are built on massive datasets and can be adapted to multiple tasks, have become a part of medtech ...

How much bad sleep does it take to raise my dementia risk? In this paper, “chronic insomnia” was defined as having trouble sleeping for at least three nights a week for at lea ...

Doctors compare brain effects to concussions in NFL players. A Wall Street Journal investigation shows such incidents are ...

Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things ...

Researchers mapped activity in 621,733 neurons, revealing how vision, choice, movement, and reward signals spread across brain regions.