Many people living with dementia never receive an accurate diagnosis, in part because Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and related conditions are notoriously difficult to tell apart and often ...

Research has long shown that meditation influences brain function, but exactly when changes begin after starting — and how they evolve with continued meditation — has been less clear. A recent study ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading edge of science. Patterson, 41, had a brain-computer interface implanted in ...

At last year’s AD/PD meeting in Vienna, what is now the Consortium for Biomedical Research and AI in Neurodegeneration was an idea. By this year’s AD/PD in Copenhagen, C-BRAIN had become an operating ...

It happens every day at North Shore University Hospital’s busy emergency department in Manhasset — patients who have fallen and hit their head are brought in for evaluation and possible treatment.

Epia Neuro’s brain-computer interface will include a motorized glove to help stroke patients recover movement in their hand. Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability, with roughly ...

Imagination is one of the most powerful things our brains can do. We can relive past events while taking a walk, rehearse future conversations through inner speech or sense the heat of a fire without ...

"I'd take the periods any day now," Kerry Sharples said Kennedy News and Media A 45-year-old woman said she "regrets" getting birth control shots after she was diagnosed with four brain tumors Doctors ...

Cognitive tests are gaining attention for their role in the early detection of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Dementia is a growing concern as it kills more older Americans than breast and ...

There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your cells for life—but if it becomes activated, it will destroy your ...

Eating a combination of two award-winning diets slowed aging in key structures inside the brain by over two years, according to a new study. While all three diets are plant-based and quite similar, ...