Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremor and trouble walking. It can also affect sleep, smell, digestion and even thinking. That may be because the disease disrupts communication in a brain ...

A recent study combining neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) sheds new light on how memory-related regions of the ...

The team is led by Leanne Li of The Francis Crick Institute in London, England. Her research combines cancer biology and ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have engineered brain cells to hunt and destroy amyloid plaques, cutting ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human brain is very good at solving complicated problems. One reason for that is that humans can break problems apart into manageable subtasks that are easy to solve one at a time ...

Five hundred people in the Canadian province of New Brunswick were diagnosed with a "mystery brain disorder" that resembled prion disease; a 2025 study offered explanations, but some patients rejected ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...

Even mild heart problems can affect brain structure, particularly in memory-related regions like the hippocampus, years before cognitive symptoms appear Heart dysfunction impacts brain volume from ...