The device can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery and could transform the treatment of Parkinson's ...

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and ...

Women’s brains are just as complex as men’s, yet for years, science largely ignored them. For decades, scientific and... The post Her brain, her research: understanding gender in neuroscience appeared ...

From causing muscle loss to raising the risk of blood clots, long-haul space missions can have a profound impact on the human ...

The cerebellum, a brain region located at the back of the head that has long been known to support the coordination of muscle movements, has recently also been implicated in more sophisticated mental ...

UCL researchers have developed an ultrasound helmet that enables deep brain stimulation without surgery, offering hope for ...

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, researchers non-invasively and precisely directed ultrasound beams to target a location ...

The flexible stalk region of sTREM2 binds the Ig-like domain, altering stability and ligand accessibility—a biochemically testable mechanism with broad implications for (s)TREM2 biology and rational ...

Aging doesn't always imply the death of neurons. Often, what occurs is a loss of efficiency in synaptic connections, those ...

As the annual meeting of the American Society for Human Genetics – this year held in Boston (MA, USA) from 14–18 October – ...

Alzheimer's disease, which affects more than 7million Americans, is caused by the abnormal build-up of proteins in and around ...