Researchers have traced the earliest stages of multiple sclerosis (MS), showing that the immune system begins attacking the brain up to seven years before diagnosis.

A new finger-prick test for Alzheimer's disease has shown similar accuracy to traditional venous blood sampling techniques. The corresponding study was presented on October 30th at the Clinical Trials ...

Experts at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute are now using a new diagnostic blood test developed by Abbott, in ...

As the lights dimmed in an operating room at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, Dr. Joshua Bederson prepared to make history. Bederson, system chair for the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount ...

Researchers have developed a blood test for anxiety that could help determine effective treatments based on biomarkers present in individuals. The corresponding study was published in Molecular ...

Breakthrough research from the University of Bath and the University of Bristol that demonstrates the real-world efficacy of a passive EEG test in identifying memory decline years before a clinical ...

Other articles in this special issue illustrate the remarkable promise of today's neuroscience for ameliorating the impact of nervous system diseases: a massive impact measurable in deaths, suffering, ...