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 ...

A first-of-its-kind study from UC San Francisco published Thursday found a simple blood test for middle-aged adults may ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barry Caldwell, esteemed animator of popular 1990s kids fare like Pinky & The Brain and Animaniacs, has died at age 68. Caldwell’s longtime friend and colleague, writer-producer-animator Paul Dini, ...

Barry Caldwell, a veteran American animator and storyboard artist whose credits included Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and Osmosis Jones, has died at the age of 68. His death was announced on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...

Going on antidepressants can give many people their life back, but for some there is a catch. About 25% to 80% of people who take antidepressants experience sexual side effects to some degree during ...

No level of alcohol is safe for the brain and even light drinking is linked to an increased risk for dementia, results of a large observational study suggested. The research combined observational ...