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Using data from nearly half a million individuals, a machine learning model has been used to rank risk factors in order of how strong their association is with the eventual development of Alzheimer’s disease.

For the first time, psychology researchers have shown that rats make the same logical errors as humans.

According to research, while we sleep, blood vessels in the brain constrict and dilate in specific patterns to clear harmful waste substances from our brains.

Heavy alcohol use creates a vicious cycle: It changes signaling pathways in the brain, which in turn affects cognitive functions like decision-making and impulse control — and makes the individual more likely to drink.

New research has shown that the flow of the cerebral spinal fluid in the brain can be manipulated using visual stimulation.

A new test can measure flow, the feeling you get when you are doing something that engages you so fully that time seems to fly by.

A new method of detecting anxious and non-anxious depression using brain signal processing has been developed by biomedical engineers at the University of Surrey.

Brains that are starved of amino acids during development are smaller and remain so throughout life, and also show neuropathological differences.

A mouse study has identified an intricate molecular process that appears to play a critical role in memory consolidation.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and disabling disease of the central nervous system, and a new study suggests that the onset and relapse of MS may be initiated by a toxin from gut bacteria.