There's an idea out there of what a drug-addled teen is supposed to look like: impulsive, unconscientious, smart, perhaps -...

People are born with brains riddled with excess neural connections. Those are slowly pruned back until early childhood when, scientists...

When we are in a deep slumber our brain's activity ebbs and flows in big, obvious waves, like watching a...

It does not take an infinite number of monkeys to type a passage of Shakespeare. Instead, it takes a single...

One person's risky bet is another's exciting opportunity. The difference between those outlooks comes down to more than just disposition:...

When modern football helmets were introduced, they all but eliminated traumatic skull fractures caused by blunt force impacts. Mounting evidence,...

For the past several years, Anthony Wagner has been developing a computer program that can read a person's brain scan...

Beginning readers who focus on letter-sound relationships, or phonics, instead of trying to learn whole words, increase activity in the...

Anyone who has struggled with a foggy brain while adjusting to daylight saving time knows first-hand how an out-of-sync circadian...

An imaging study by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators has found distinct differences between the brains of patients with...

For the 2.2 million Americans battling glaucoma, the main course of action for staving off blindness involves weekly visits to...

Something — or some things — in the blood of young mice has the ability to restore mental capabilities in...

In 2005, a Stanford University scientist discovered how to switch brain cells on or off with light pulses by using...

Fifty years of research has revealed the sad truth that the children of lower-income, less-educated parents typically enter school with...

The learning and physical disabilities that affect people with Down syndrome may be due at least in part to defective...