New research suggests that calming the brain's immune cells might prevent or lessen the damaging inflammation seen in Alzheimer's disease.

New research reveals that memories of fatty and sugary foods are encoded in the hippocampus, helping explain why some ...

NooCube has been shown to reduce anxiety and enhance short-term memory abilities. For good reason, NooCube is one of the most ...

Getting therapeutic drugs past the blood-brain barrier has long been a major challenge in treating brain diseases. Now, researchers have explored how cholesterol-modified heteroduplex oligonucleotides ...

Getting therapeutic drugs past the blood-brain barrier has long been one of medicine's most difficult challenges, limiting ...

Vision is one of the most complex functions of our brain and requires a seamless interaction between many different brain structures to decode shapes, colours, depths, and movements and turn them into ...

For the first time, the smallest control system of vision in mammals has been mapped—a discovery that opens entirely new ...

Babies and young children may breathe and absorb plasticizers called phthalates, flame retardants, and other harmful ...

The brain really is an incredible organ, and neurons are the vital link between, well, everything. The brain is anything but ...

New research shows that apathy and fatigue in advanced cancer are driven not by physical decline, but by inflammation-sensing neurons that suppress motivation.