The peculiarities of the human brain are as puzzling as its complexity. It is peculiar that the brain doesn’t know it exists. As monarch of the nervous system, you’d think that this simple fact wouldn ...

The mass die-off of nerve cells in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease may largely occur because an entirely different class of brain cells, called microglia, begin to fall down on the job, ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio (Ivanhoe Newswire) – More than 1.7 million Americans are treated for traumatic brain injuries each year. The main causes are stroke, car accidents, bad falls, and assault. But did you ...

Blocking a receptor in the brain responsible for regulating immune cells could protect against the memory and behavior changes seen in the progression of Alzheimer's disease. It was originally thought ...

Meet L-serine, an essential amino acid that supports healthy brain function, improves memory, and keeps your neurons firing ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and The Scripps Research Institute, with colleagues in Los Angeles and Japan, report that ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blocking a single brain enzyme helped short-circuit a key hunger signal in mice and made them eat less, lose weight and have better blood sugar control, U.S. researchers said on ...

More than 1.7 million Americans are treated for traumatic brain injuries each year. The main causes are stroke, car accidents, bad falls and assault. But did you know a hard hit to your head can also ...

Blocking an immune system molecule that accumulates after traumatic brain injury could significantly reduce the injury's detrimental effects, according to a recent mouse study my neuroscience lab and ...

Breast cancer patients are surviving for longer than ever before, but the survival rates for those with brain metastasis remain dismally low. Once metastatic cancer cells take up root in the brain, ...