If you often find yourself lying awake in the middle of the night worrying, sleep experts say cognitive shuffling might be worth a try.

Professor Gill Livingston, an expert in the psychiatry of older people at University College London (UCL), says shifts in ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand exactly how Alzheimer’s begins and why it gets worse over time. A major feature of the disease is the buildup of sticky protein clumps in the brain ...

For World Sleep Day we’re investigating how nightmares may be your body’s way of alerting you to a serious health problem. Neurologists explain.

On Thursday, March 12, Smith College President Sarah Willie-LeBreton welcomed to campus Dr. Frances Jensen ’78—renowned ...

Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike structure.

A comprehensive new study suggests that females require a much larger biological and cognitive shift to develop autism than males do. The findings help explain why the condition is diagnosed ...

Autism is a developmental condition that affects how people communicate, learn, and interact with others. It usually appears ...

ADHD often looks like “not trying," but the science tells a different story. Here’s what parents should know about the ADHD ...

Can our homes help detect brain changes? New research shows how digital sensing reveals subtle shifts in movement and cognition in everyday life, and can track disease progression.

Alzheimer's disease affects millions of people around the world. To study this condition, researchers must peer inside the distinctive environment of the human brain. but for scientists to get the ...