Alzheimer's disease is not only about the accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain. A growing number of studies indicate ...

A breakthrough from the University of Cambridge is offering new hope for one of medicine’s most stubborn challenges: repairing damage to the brain and spinal cord. By growing miniature connected ...

We've known for decades that we don't have lizard brains or mammalian brains, so why do people still think we do?

The first stem cell culture method that produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system has been developed by a team of engineers and biologists at the University of ...

A new Yale study reveals that major organ systems in the body aren’t just passive structures operating on directions from command central — aka the brain — but instead are active participants in ...

Research headed by teams at the University of Rochester Center for Translational Medicine and the University of Copenhagen describes for the first time how a spreading wave of disruption and the flow ...