HOUSTON — MD Anderson Cancer Center is conducting groundbreaking research to determine whether music can literally heal the body. Researchers are using advanced brain wave mapping technology to study ...

Life begins with music. The human body provides the basic musical elements for the soundtrack to fetal development. The rhythmic pulsing of mom’s heartbeat, the rise and fall of her footsteps, the ...

Music’s influence on the brain is documented in conditions ranging from dementia to epilepsy. Both music participation and appreciation are tied to improvements in executive function and memory so how ...

You know that feeling when your brain feels like a browser with 47 tabs open, and half of them are playing different videos at the same time? You sit down to work or ...

It’s a groundbreaking project, said Assistant Professor of Digital Music Badie Khaleghian, when asked about the work that rising junior Jintae Park has been doing over the summer, under his ...

A personalized electronic facial tattoo that wirelessly monitors the brain can tell when the organ is being overworked and can use the data it collects to predict mental overload, according to a new ...

For the first time, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Amsterdam UMC have identified what happens in neural networks deep within the brain during obsessive thoughts and ...

This public domain/Wikimedia Commons image of monitors working in the security operations center at the University of Maryland illustrates a challenge of visual working memory: keeping track of what ...

When electrical activity travels across the brain, it moves like ripples on a pond. The motion of these "brain waves," first observed in the 1920s, can now be seen more clearly than ever before thanks ...

A new study finds that an easily measurable brain wave shift of phase may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under general anesthesia. At the level of molecules and cells, ketamine and ...

In a new study published in Neuron titled, “Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms,” researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of ...