Traumatic brain injuries have long affected military service members, with the Department of Defense reporting nearly 516,000 ...

It starts with a hit. Maybe a tackle in a high school football game. Maybe a blast wave during military service. The damage ...

Jeffrey Lawson was born prematurely in February 1985. Shortly afterward, the newborn had to undergo heart surgery without anesthesia. After Jeffrey Lawson’s death, his mother was told that her son had ...

Answering the question of when consciousness emerges is deeply tied to the mystery of what it actually is and how it can be ...

A look at some of the differences between states of consciousness and brain death: Brain death: These patients are no longer alive. There has been an irreversible cessation of all activity in both ...

Recent dubious brain death diagnoses have some calling for an end to the controversial protocol. Brain-Death Declaration A prominent recent case involved a 23-year-old Jamaican woman who admitted ...

Brain waves influence cognitive control and memory formation, informing how the brain manages memory. Working memory stores and manipulates information temporarily for tasks like learning and ...

Meditation: A 2017 study Trusted Source suggests people who practiced daily meditation and breathing exercises had enhanced levels of gamma waves in a specific area of the brain. Sensory ...

The funding to Trinity researchers is part of a €12.4m investment from the HRB to address health challenges. The awards for Trinity will support individual projects investigating health areas that ...

These patterns, called sharp-wave ripples, help etch memories into the brain. Like waves on the ocean, they “splash” across other brain regions in electrical ebbs and flows that reconfigure neural ...

But that brings us to the case of Jahi McMath, who was determined to be brain dead based on the criteria supported by Dr. Eberl et al.—that is, without hypothalamic testing.

We are more likely to perceive events when their timing coincides with the timing of relevant brain waves. Lead scientist Sanne ten Oever and her co-authors set out to determine whether neural ...