Illness, particularly fever, significantly impacts sleep by altering brain activity and body temperature, leading to intense, ...

While brain clocks can be used to measure brain health (accelerated or delayed brain ageing), the biophysical models can explain why creativity is associated with better brain health. Across every ...

Researchers led by Masako Tamaki at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan report a link between deep sleep and ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that the voices heard by people with schizophrenia might be their own inner speech ...

Carlos Coronel and Agustín Ibáñez answer questions about their research into the links between brain health and creativity ...

Researchers have identified a rare type of brain cell whose overactivity may contribute to schizophrenia-like symptoms, such as cognitive deficits and disrupted sleep.

By any name, the phenomenon reveals that we don’t always know when we’re asleep or awake, and that our beliefs about sleep influence how rested we feel. At the same time, researchers are finding that ...

Menopause marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years. But the transition affects far more than reproductive health: it also reshapes the brain. As estrogen and progesterone decline, cognitive ...

Current treatments for cognitive symptoms in patients with diagnoses such as schizophrenia are inadequate. We need to ...

Overthinking might stem from your brain's reward system, scientists suggest. A 'dopamine detox' from digital overload and ...

An Australian-first trial involving brainwave stimulation has the potential to slow or reverse the early stages of dementia, ...