Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

For years, stimulant medications for ADHD have been described as chemical accelerators, framed as drugs that rev up a ...

Brain scientists looked inside the open skulls of 16 epilepsy patients and tracked how a thought develops and moves.

Precise changes in the connectivity between neurons caused by an imbalance of gut bacteria may help explain depressive ...

“A really big question that, at least I ask myself, is, ‘How do we become who we are?’” University of Virginia psychology graduate student Olivia Allison said. New work she is conducting in UVA’s Baby ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...