Rewards can boost visual perceptual learning tasks but only after getting some quality shut-eye, new research shows.

Three free brain games for your phone can help with memory, attention, and flexible thinking. And unlike with other games, there's research to back up the benefits.

The size of the brain's hippocampus doesn't always matter for memory in older adults. New research clarifies why.

Fast food advertisements on TV can prime teen brains to make unhealthy food choices, even when those ads are for salads and smoothies, new research shows.

Blue light early in the morning can aid the healing process for mild traumatic brain injury, potentially because it gets people on the right sleep schedule.

Sleep may allow birds learning to sing to remember the useful things they learned during the day, and forget what's not important.

A missing protein in the brain can cause behaviors that mimic autism, a new study shows.

A new molecule, which patients could take orally, both attacks glioblastoma and destroys its defenses, which keeps the brain cancer from repairing itself.

Surgically removing the entire tumor may add years of survival for patients with brainstem high-grade gliomas, one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer.

Delaying treatment after suffering a concussion can mean a slower recovery, experts warn.