By Joel N. Shurkin, Inside Science -- Researchers in Pittsburgh, using a brain-computer interface, have shown why learning something similar to what you already know--a repertoire of previous…

Researchers at Harvard School of Medicine and the University at Buffalo have discovered a sleep-promoting circuit located deep in the primitive brainstem, only the second "sleep node" identified in…

Don't bank on it. Credit: Sabinurce By Kristine Alexander, University of Vermont As the number of elderly people increases, so do concerns about cognitive impairment and dementia. Minor difficulties…

Most adults need seven to nine hours sleep to function at their best. Credit: Jiuck/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Gemma Paech, University of South Australia The amount of sleep adults need has once again…

Cigarette smoking is considered a leading cause of preventable death worldwide and implicated in as many as 440,000 deaths in the United States each year by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…

Thiamine - vitamin B1 - can potentially cause a fatal brain disorder called Wernicke encephalopathy. Wernicke encephalopathy typically occurs in people who have disorders such as alcoholism and…

Some people avoid risk while others will roll the dice with wealth, health, and safety. Is it just personality? Media influence? Researchers led by Ifat Levy, assistant professor in comparative…

People with blood type AB may be more likely to develop memory loss in later years than people with other blood types, according to a paper in Neurology, but what does that really mean? AB is the…

Males get more diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorders than females and it may be related to changes in the brain's estrogen signaling, writes a paper in Molecular Autism.  Autism Spectrum…

Coral trout are fast when chasing prey above the reefs of their habitat, but can't pursue their quarry if it buries itself into a hard-to-reach reef crevice - so they instead team up with a snake-…