Peer-reviewed findings highlight precision treatment in the youngest reported patient with acquired hypothalamic obesity ...

For the past six years, Casey Harrell’s life has felt like a slow-motion car crash. At 42, he began to lose his voice to the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. His world ...

When cysticerci enter a person’s central nervous system, it’s a disease called neurocysticercosis (NCC), which is the ...

A new study explores the effects of both recent and lifetime cannabis use on brain function during cognitive tasks. The study, the largest of its kind ever to be completed, examined the effects of ...

A woman with advanced Alzheimer’s disease saw significant improvements in brain function after taking psilocybin-containing mushrooms. That’s according to a case report recently published in Frontiers ...

Researchers found that social behavior begins in the brain before it becomes visible as movement. In zebrafish, a coordinated pattern of activity spread across the brain several seconds before the ...

Ontario's first fatal rabies case since 1967 provides critical guidance to help prevent deaths from rabies in future cases. The article was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Human ...

A review in Science looked at the oscillatory biology of sleep and how disruptions are linked with dementia risk. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and MRI data, a novel framework revealed how the ...

The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process. One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in ...

Jun. 19—A Connecticut man who went to an urgent health care facility with an earache died about three weeks later from infection of the middle ear that led to a bone infection and then a brain abscess ...

Sam Stubbs’s parents were asked about his quality of life while treating him for a lung infection. They realised it was because he was born with Down syndrome.

Objective To evaluate systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the effects of exercise on general cognition, memory and executive function across all populations and ages. Methods ...