A machine-learning study finds that "brain age" calculated from sleep EEG waves can predict dementia risk, with a 10-year age gap increasing risk by 40%.

In a recent Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience study, researchers describe their observations from continuous electroencephalography (EEG) recordings obtained from the brain of a dying 87-year-old man ...

Hypsarrhythmia is an abnormal pattern that appears on an EEG test. This pattern shows up as a specific and recognizable pattern of tall, wide waves on top of the background. Share on Pinterest Getty ...

A machine-learning analysis of brain waves recorded during sleep may help identify people at high risk of developing dementia, according to a study ...

While nitrous oxide gas has been used recreationally and medically for more than 200 years - originally for its euphoric and then for its pain relieving and anesthetic properties - the mechanism ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brain waves emblematic of generalized epilepsy. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Jena, Germany, 1924: Working ...

Jena, Germany, 1924: Working in near-isolation and with painstaking tediousness, the psychiatrist Hans Berger observes rhythmic electrical activity from the scalp of human subjects. He is convinced ...