Health officials have revealed the key early warning signs of the 'silent killer' disease spread by bugs that is now 'endemic ...

Neuroscientists are zeroing in on how special kinds of brain cells help us see things that aren't actually there.

A French civil servant functioned normally with 90 percent of his brain missing. How is this possible? Research reveals ...

Neurodegenerative diseases remain some of the most difficult conditions to treat. Disorders like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s ...

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and ...

Small cell lung cancer cells that metastasize to the brain cozy up to neurons and form working electrical connections, called ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer to 1 in 31, or 3.2%. That’s far higher than what researchers observe in ...

Summary: A new study suggests that autism may be linked to the rapid evolution of brain cell types unique to humans.

A definitive diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., can only happen posthumously through a weeks-long ...