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 ...

Researchers create the first real-time memory test to objectively identify alcohol blackouts as they happen, preventing injuries.

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 ...

COLUMBIA — The gleaming new building will be a center for sophisticated testing and treatment for South Carolina patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. It could also be a ...

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.

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 ...

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...

A generally healthy 63-year-old man in the New England area went to the hospital with a fever, cough, and vision problems in his right eye. His doctors eventually determined that a dreaded ...

If you scroll through TikTok or Instagram long enough, you’ll inevitably stumble across the line: “Your frontal lobe isn’t fully developed yet.” It’s become neuroscience’s go-to explanation for bad ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...