A new study reveals that even a short nap can rejuvenate the brain, enhancing its ability to learn and retain new information, similarly to a full night's sleep. Researchers found that a brief nap ...

A new study on the detriments of too many synaptic connections in the mouse cerebellum by neuroscientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis corroborates previous human ...

A quick afternoon nap can help the brain recover and put it back into a state where it is ready to learn, effects were so far ...

To probe for the existence of synaptic connections in brain slices, Triplett and his colleagues at Columbia and UC Berkeley used a technique known as holographic optogenetics, which uses light to ...

A recent study by scientists from the University Medical School of Freiburg (Germany), the University Hospitals of Geneva ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a fundamental discovery about a key mechanism that enables nervous system ...

A new study reveals that a quick afternoon nap can enhance the brain's ability to learn by reorganizing synaptic connections, ...