For decades, neurology treated the brain like a black box, nudging it with drugs and hoping symptoms would ease. Now researchers are learning to adjust the brain’s own electrical language with far ...

Army researchers are exploring ways to boost soldiers’ sleep to increase cognition and performance. Doctors at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s Walter Reed Army Institute of ...

A gentle pulse of electricity appears to improve older people’s ability to remember lists of words—even a month later. Many of us will struggle to remember things as we get older. A gentle form of ...

An electrical zap to the brain can temporarily render a person more susceptible to hypnosis, a new study shows. Participants became more easily hypnotized after paddles placed against their scalp ...

A breast tumor (in blue) grows within the surrounding mammary tissue (in red), while lymphatic vessels (in green) form a network around it. High-intensity electrical pulses have been medically used to ...