Tracking the brain's blood flow during neurosurgery represents one of the most critical and challenging parts of the ...

A fascinating new study shows moving your body helps wring out your brain like a dirty sponge, keeping it clean and ...

Brain blood flow monitoring surgery gets quantitative for the first time with standard camera hardware. UT Austin’s SIMSI ...

Every thought, memory, and flicker of awareness a person experiences runs on roughly 20 watts of power, about the same draw ...

Measuring blood flow in the brain is critical for responding to a range of neurological problems, including stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and vascular dementia. But existing techniques, ...

We know that exercise is good for our physical health, but mounting research is showing that it can help improve our brain ...

Vascular dementia is a type of dementia that causes changes in memory, thinking, and behavior that result from conditions that affect the blood vessels in the brain. A person’s cognition and brain ...

Glioblastoma—the most aggressive form of brain cancer—remains one of medicine's biggest challenges. Despite surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, most patients survive only about a year after ...

Though it accounts for just two percent of the body’s weight, the brain consumes a whopping 20% of its total energy. To get the energy it needs for more complicated tasks, the brain has evolved a ...

We've all experienced the intense struggle to pay attention after a bad night's sleep — and a new study shows what happens in the brain as that feeling arises. These fatigue-induced attention failures ...