REM Sleep Behavior Disorder causes more than dream enactment—it’s a powerful clue to neurodegenerative disease risk.

A protective sugar coating on brain blood vessels, once thought to be insignificant, turns out to play a vital role in ...

The cerebral cortex, the outermost layer of the brain, is the central driver of various human capabilities, including ...

Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson ...

Sleep disorders may lead to structural brain changes, cognitive decline, and neurological disease. Here’s what science says about the risk.

Scientists from Mass General Brigham explored the associations between telomere length—which decreases as a person ages or is ...

Scientists have found that lemborexant not only increased restorative sleep in male mice but also reduced levels of toxic tau ...

A new study reveals how humans use flexible problem-solving strategies like hierarchical and counterfactual reasoning when ...

Using AI to analyze brain scans of students solving math problems, researchers offer the first-ever glimpse into the neural ...

A study of 20,000 anxiety disorder patients shows how negativity bias affects brain structure, cognitive function and mental health, supporting the view that mental illness is brain illness.

B ioengineers have created a soft, thin, and stretchable bioelectronic device that can be implanted into frog embryos’ ...

According to experts, the patterns of visual loss vary dramatically based on the tumour location and can range from partial ...