What were you investigating?We investigated how our brains process language during real-life conversations. Specifically, we wanted to understand ...

A Series in The Lancet Neurology provides state-of-the-art reviews covering clinical and scientific evidence on the four most common genetic subtypes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), caused by ...

What is the nature of human uniqueness? In a three-part series ... three continents -- even undergoing an examination of his own brain. » Learn More ...

In order to find out how existing drugs could be prescribed, it was important for the researchers to first understand which factors play a role in the development of lesions at different locations in ...

In animal models, NU-9 was found to show promise in treating Alzheimer's by reducing toxic protein buildup and brain inflammation.

Two of the goals of that program are to generate a detailed wiring diagram for the complete mouse brain, and to map long-distance connections between different areas of the human brain.

Next, a second group dissected that same brain region, dividing it into layers 1/400th the width of a human hair, and took pictures of each slice. Due to the delicate nature of the structure ...

A team of more than 100 scientists recorded the cellular activity and mapped the structure in a cubic millimeter of a mouse’s brain.Credit... Supported by By Carl Zimmer The human brain is so ...

Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week have an increased risk of brain lesions called hyaline arteriolosclerosis, signs of brain injury that are associated with memory and ...

Mapping a tiny piece of a mouse’s brain — barely a cubic millimeter of its cerebral cortex — has opened a never-before-explored path toward understanding the human mind. An international consortium ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

The researchers’ most recent paper, published in February in Nature Medicine, generated a string of alarmed headlines and buzz in the scientific community: They found that human brain samples ...