Health News: Parkinson's disease is an incurable and fatal disease of the brain or nervous system. In this disease, the nerve ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

A new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham shows that a brain waste- "clean-up" system is influenced by ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

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

"I'm fine" and "I'll take care of it" (even at capacity) can be nervous system signals. Decoding them makes hard moments easier to navigate.

UCLA scientists have developed advanced miniature 3D tumor organoid models that make it possible to study glioblastoma tumors in a setting that closely mirrors the human brain, shedding light on how ...

Brain-meningeal immunity is increasingly recognized as a central player in the complex network of interactions within the central nervous system (CNS).

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

In a first, this week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a brain stimulation device designed to treat depression at home. The approval of the first such device for home depression ...