A hidden communication network between brain cells and glioblastoma tumors may be key to slowing this aggressive cancer.

Researchers have created a targeted compound that blocks an enzyme linked to inflammation in individuals with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease, while still maintaining normal brain ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have identified a hazardous waste collector in the brain that disposes of the toxic clumps of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Technion study reveals how neurons push toxic proteins onto neighbors, offering new insight into how Alzheimer’s spreads.

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...

For numerous individuals with schizophrenia, living with the condition involves challenges, not only related to hallucinations or delusions, but also due to subtler difficulties, such as problems ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have identified two receptors in the brain that control the breakdown of amyloid beta, a substance that ...

Researchers identify key brain pathway that turns short-term pain into chronic pain, opening doors to new non-opioid treatments ...

Scientists have identified an unusual type of brain cell that may play a vital role in progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), likely contributing to the persistent inflammation characteristic of the ...

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