Scientists in the UK have manipulated two prominant types of brain wave while volunteers slept, in an effort to develop better tools to study critical neurological activities. The waves ...

In dementia studies, measurements of brain activity are typically taken using multichannel EEG, which requires multiple electrodes to be placed on the scalp. Credit: yacobchuk/iStock/Getty Around ...

Handwritten by Dutch biologist and microscopist Johannes Swammerdam, the manuscript contains a detailed description and drawing of a honeybee drone’s brain. The illustration, based on his own ...

Patterns of neural activity known as alpha waves, long thought to originate in the thalamus, may actually stem from a different brain region entirely. Amanda was an associate editor at The Scientist, ...