The doctors identified uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes, obesity, smoking, chronic stress, physical inactivity and poor ...

Sleep disorders may do more than leave people feeling tired. New research from Florida International University shows that ...

A study using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has found that patients with schizophrenia had significantly lower ...

Acute systemic inflammation has long been suspected to trigger harmful processes within the brain, contributing to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. A new study ...

These disorders, considered neurodevelopmental conditions, most often emerge during adolescence or early adulthood and have an estimated prevalence of 0.5-3% in the general population. The hippocampus ...

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...

Review of Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders – And How We Can Change That. By Nicole Rust. Princeton University Press. More than a billion people around the world suffer ...

A new research study led by Jonathan D. Santoro, MD, Director of the Neuroimmunology Program at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, shows evidence of dysfunction of the blood-brain barrier and ...

A recent grant award in the Department of Neurology serves to help investigators analyze how a group of brain cells may be responsible for changes to neural circuits that lead to the movement disorder ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...