“When you have a brain that is easily distracted by competing inputs, it’s hard for a task that is both boring and often ...

"Deep sleep builds your immune system, and REM sleep regulates and fine-tunes it," says Darwall-Smith agrees. During deep ...

Imagine a boxer dodging a punch, a musician perfectly timing a note, or a driver anticipating a green light—the brain can be ...

It is a small region of the brain and many studies have shown that it produces two types of waves: theta and beta. The theta ...

Deep sleep could be key to forestalling slow declines in brain health that may one day lead to Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.

And if you can control your brain waves, they say, you can control ... at the highest, called beta, you're focused and attentive. Neurofeedback operates on the principal that you can become ...

The effects of the binaural beat will depend on its frequency and the corresponding brain wave: Beta waves (13-16 Hz) occur when we are awake and alert. Alpha waves (8-12 Hz) happen when we are ...