This is a potentially important study comparing infants (8 months) and adults with respect to rhythmic EEG response properties during periodic and aperiodic visual stimulation. The results provide ...

Most of the genetic risk for developing a substance use disorder comes from genes that broadly affect how our brains process rewards, regulate impulses and weigh consequences—not from genes that ...

Scientists have quantified what draws mosquitoes to people—which could help make better, life-saving bug traps.

Mice make use of rapid nerve cell interactions in the brain's smell center to distinguish one odor from another, a new study ...

You may underestimate how frequently you look at your device, and you may be paying a price with more attention and memory lapses. For many of us, checking our phones has probably become an ...

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have reported important progress in quantum physics and materials ...

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) provides 'top-down', higher-order guidance of thought, attention, behaviour and emotion, with dorsolateral regions regulating cognition, and ventromedial regions regulating ...

It can be easy to take our teeth for granted until something goes wrong. Our teeth play a major role in our ability to eat and digest food, and can affect our overall health. Adults typically have 32 ...

Gene Demby is a founding member of NPRs Code Switch team, where he serves as a host of the show's podcast. In 2020, Code Switch was named Apple's inaugural Podcast Of The Year. Demby's essays for Code ...

On Tuesday, April 7, the Department of Chemistry welcomed Herdeline Ann "Digs" Ardoña from the University of California, ...