Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke recovery therapy.

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and ...

A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a ...

What Is the Frontal Lobe? Your frontal lobe is one of four different sections (also called lobes) of your brain. The four lobes in your brain are called the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital ...

A French civil servant functioned normally with 90 percent of his brain missing. How is this possible? Research reveals ...

Early on, Nedergaard and Iliff, a glial cell biologist and a vascular physiologist, respectively, hypothesized that waste ...

In the first study, a research team from the University of Toronto and the Chinese Academy of Sciences used MRIs to scan the brains of 50 older adults and 24 younger adults. Half the older adults had ...

Recent research, published in Biological Psychiatry, provides the first proof that evidence-based parenting programs are ...

Brain volume and function are altered in individuals with opioid use disorder, a new Yale study finds. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI), researchers observed the ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

A late 1980s commercial meant to combat drug addiction used a pair of frying eggs as a metaphor for the effects of drugs on the human brain. While researchers have long understood that there is a ...