In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

A new study has brought scientists one step further in the direction of developing a cure for a brutal group of rare brain disorders known as SYNGAP1-related disorders, or SRDs. Researchers were able ...

We’ve gotten used to thinking about dementia risk in terms of long-standing habits, shaped by how we eat, move, sleep, and, to some extent, our genetics. Things like infections rarely make that list.

Scientists have discovered a hidden drainage system in the human brain that may help explain Alzheimer’s disease.

The potential benefits of organoids for fundamental research and medicine are huge. Efforts to establish proper boundaries ...

A popular technique for studying brain disorders, known as lesion network mapping (LNM), appears to have a fundamental limitation. This is the conclusion of neuroscientists from Vrije Universiteit ...

The approaches seem disparate, which is why most brain scientists choose individual strategies. But Silver believes the ...

The symptom profiles of different neurodegenerative diseases often overlap, and diagnosing age-related cognitive symptoms is ...

Study authors Hunter Schweiger (left) and Ash Robbins. Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small ...

Andre Yarham's family is hoping to help other people diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia by donating their son's brain for research Samantha Fairbairn / SWNS Andre Yarham, 24, died less than two ...

Anxiety and IBS are not separate conditions but intertwined signals of a disrupted gut-brain axis that millions misunderstand ...