Nicotine, an addictive stimulant found in the tobacco plant, can increase the release of dopamine and other neurotransmitters ...

A protein long blamed for the brain damage seen in Alzheimer’s disease has now been found in astonishingly high levels in ...

Unlike expensive positron emission tomography (PET) scans or invasive lumbar punctures, the new blood test measures the ratio of two proteins, pTau217 and ß-Amyloid 1-42, which are implicated in ...

Adults with a father who had Alzheimer’s showed greater tau buildup, a key marker of the disease. Women in the study had more ...

The brain remains highly active during sleep, and mapping this activity can reveal early signs of neurological and sleep ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can turn a common doctor’s office test into a screening tool for detecting structural problems ...

It was awful — like literally almost like a labor contraction in my head or somebody taking an ice pick and just stabbing me ...

When astronauts began spending six months and more aboard the International Space Station, they started to notice changes in ...

An interdisciplinary team working on balls of human neurons called organoids wanted to scale up their efforts and take on ...

Short-lived lesions sometimes appear in the brain following heart surgery — and now, a new trial hints that they might be ...

In some ways, the boxing, dancing and singing classes from the Cedar Rapids Metro Parkinson's Association have become a ...

Spearheaded by the World Federation of Neurology, World Brain Day on July 22 will celebrate the theme of “Brain Health for ...