Many patients suffer from epilepsy that cannot be controlled by current medications. Surgical removal of epileptogenic brain regions is effective in only about half of cases, and not all patients are ...

Understanding how our brain interprets social hierarchy or facial emotions may be key to advancing our knowledge of anxiety and mood disorders. This is the aim of the project led by researcher Maya ...

Researchers at MIT and Harvard have identified a striking biological pattern behind the mental fog that follows a sleepless night: the exact moments when a sleep-deprived person loses focus coincide ...

Mild cognitive impairment is linked to blood vessel dysfunction in the brain's temporal lobes - the seat of memory - according to a new USC-led study. The findings, seen in people with and without ...

Boosting KCC2 function reduced seizures and abnormal brain activity in temporal lobe epilepsy models. Learn how this strategy could aid drug-resistant epilepsy.

Since decades or better centuries philosophers have argued over what our self is. Some like Descartes and his modern successors postulated that the self is a mental entity that is based on mental ...