Researchers find that altered Homer1 gene signaling quiets brain activity and improves attention in mice, raising new ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

For years, stimulant medications for ADHD have been described as chemical accelerators, framed as drugs that rev up a ...

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

What looks like a quirky sleep habit might actually be a quiet nod to how your brain is wired: thoughtful, tuned in, and ...

Lendner is one of a growing number of neuroscientists energized by the idea that noise in the brain’s electrical activity could hold new clues to its inner workings. What was once seen as the ...

How many times have you read the headline "Brain scans show...?" They've "shown" when patients are in pain, how psychopaths' brains are different, and why some people are shy. And they've even been ...

No? That’s surprising. Odds are, you can hear something right now: A siren, the hum of a fan, the blur of background conversations, the ticking of a watch. It’s seldom that our worlds are fully silent ...

The brain never sits idle. Whether we are awake or asleep, watch TV or close our eyes, waves of spontaneous nerve signals wash through our brains. Researchers studying visual attention have discovered ...

It's a question that has plagued philosophers and scientists for thousands of years: Is free will an illusion? Now, a new study suggests that free will may arise from a hidden signal buried in the ...

At a sleep research symposium in January 2020, Janna Lendner presented findings that hint at a way to look at people’s brain activity for signs of the boundary between wakefulness and unconsciousness.