For the average person, living at high altitude—where oxygen is sparser than at sea level—can have health benefits ranging ...

Dubbed the “creativity circuit,” damage to this area due to injury or brain disease resulted in both decreases and increases ...

Sex hormones have a profound impact on the brain, affecting disorders like stroke, epilepsy, and Alzheimer’s. A new review ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) — a neurodegenerative disorder — comes with a significant socioeconomic burden. Recent studies have ...

Scientists explore how the immune and nervous systems constantly communicate, influencing brain diseases, behavior, and ...

Tick borne encephalitis is usually spread to people who have travelled abroad to other parts of Europe, as well as China and ...

Every couple of years it seems like another wave of stories emerge claiming picking your nose is a major causal factor in the ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an extremely rare and fatal brain-wasting disease that's like a human version of "mad cow." ...

The findings suggest that vascular dysfunction could be an early driver in neurodegenerative disorders rather than being ...

A by-product of cholesterol plays a "pivotal" role in Parkinson’s disease, according to new research. The metabolite is ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a lipid nanoparticle system capable of delivering ...