Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any moment, the brain is flooded with information, and staying focused depends ...

Researchers find that altered Homer1 gene signaling quiets brain activity and improves attention in mice, raising new ...

At a sleep research symposium in January 2020, Janna Lendner presented findings that hint at a way to look at people’s brain activity for signs of the boundary between wakefulness and unconsciousness.

What looks like a quirky sleep habit might actually be a quiet nod to how your brain is wired: thoughtful, tuned in, and ...

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

Our ability to make choices -- and sometimes mistakes -- might arise from random fluctuations in the brain's background electrical noise, according to a recent study. New research shows how arbitrary ...

The brain never sits idle. Whether we are awake or asleep, watch TV or close our eyes, waves of spontaneous nerve signals wash through our brains. Researchers studying visual attention have discovered ...

Lendner is one of a growing number of neuroscientists energized by the idea that noise in the brain’s electrical activity could hold new clues to its inner workings. What was once seen as the ...