Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to ...

New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms.

The family of Andre Yarham, who died of frontotemporal dementia, hopes his brain can help scientific research. He is ...

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Researchers have discovered a brain activity pattern that can predict which people with mild cognitive impairment are likely ...

New nanomaterial passes the blood-brain barrier to reduce damaging inflammation after the most common form of stroke. When ...

Allen Institute researcher Jerome Lecoq points to one of the diagrams that was used in a study focusing on how the brain interprets optical illusions. (Allen Institute Photo / Erik Dinnel) Our brains ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

October saw several universities launch major initiatives in brain science and neurological research, often with the help of new private gifts to underwrite their efforts. Here are summaries of the ...

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Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

A 24-year-old man who died over Christmas due to dementia has left his brain to researchers. Andre Yarham, who lived in ...