Scientists have uncovered a powerful strategy that the brain uses to coordinate chemical signaling. In a new study, ...

Scientists found that protein deposits in the retina create unique light patterns for different brain diseases in humans.

Leigh syndrome is a rare metabolic disorder that begins in childhood and causes severe neurological and muscular problems. The disease has long been considered untreatable. In a pilot study involving ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

A recent medical report has forced doctors and parents to confront measles’s long-term complications in children again. In ...

A paper published in Neurology: Clinical Practice is pressing neurologists to treat spiritual distress as a routine part of brain disease care, not an afterthought. The study, which appeared as an ...

Months after promising help for “hundreds of thousands of kids,” the FDA approved the decades-old medicine for a disease ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have used a form of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze anatomical changes in the brain and predict Alzheimer's disease with nearly 93% accuracy.

Researchers found that very small numbers of gut bacteria can translocate to the brain in mice, particularly when gut barrier ...

Deciding if and when to pursue deep brain stimulation (DBS) can be overwhelming for people with Parkinson's disease. While ...

Don’t sleep on this troubling symptom of Alzheimer’s. Despite primarily affecting people over the age of 65, the most common type of dementia can be detected through early warning signs like poor ...

In 1997, Alan Leshner, then director of the National Institute for Drug Abuse, wrote an article entitled “Addiction Is a Brain Disease and It Matters.” That eight-word title became the perfect sound ...