Scientists studying the cellular chaos of epileptic seizures have uncovered a previously unrecognized molecular pathway that appears to protect injured...

A hormone produced deep in the brain may hold one of the keys to unlocking brown fat's metabolic potential, but...

Dexmedetomidine, a sedative drug widely embraced in the care of patients with burst brain aneurysms, does not appear to improve...

Mathematicians have built a new computational model of Alzheimer's disease that treats memory—not as a metaphor but as a mathematical...

The hypothalamus, a thumbnail-sized structure deep in the brain that governs hunger, sleep, stress hormones and circadian rhythm, is emerging...

When a person arrives at the emergency department with the signature signs of an acute ischemic stroke, every minute matters....

Infants who develop progressive brain ventricle enlargement after bleeding into the brain around the time of birth often face a...

Graph neural networks, a class of deep learning models built to operate directly on the structure of connected data, are...

Optogenetics, the technique that allows researchers to switch defined cells on and off with light, has become one of the...

Every year, millions of people lose their memories, their reasoning and their independence to vascular dementia, the second most common...