A new Northwestern University study using patient nervous tissue and lab-grown human neurons has uncovered how a key disease ...

Northwestern researchers were able to calm overactive neurons and restore neuronal activity, which could potentially slow the ...

A new Northwestern University study using patient nervous tissue and lab-grown human neurons has uncovered how a key disease ...

A Huddersfield dad is filming a "bucket list" after being diagnosed with a "far worse" disease than cancer plunged him into ...

Analyzing data from more than half a million adults in the U.S. and U.K., researchers found that even light drinking was linked to a higher risk of dementia and measurable brain damage.

For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that controls the melody and rhythm of how we speak and sing.

Part of getting older is (hopefully) getting wiser! Not only do we make smarter decisions, but we can also recognize when something we once thought was OK turns out to be the opposite of OK... If ...

Not even Posh Spice could escape childhood bullying. Victoria Beckham opened up this week about being taunted and teased at school, revealing she struggled “enormously” with her academics. “I’m a self ...

The prefrontal cortex is a cortical area located in the anterior frontal lobe, including several subdivisions (e.g. ventromedial, dorsolateral, orbitofrontal cortices). The prefrontal cortex functions ...

Millennial mother and content creator Poppy (@poppyspod) shared that as an adult learning to regulate her own emotions, she feels her generation is responsible for supporting the other generations.

Antônio Egas Moniz (1874-1955) of Portugal was an ambitious and multitalented person -- a neurologist, political figure, and man of letters. By the 1930s he was already known for his successful ...

I recently wrote about how children and adolescents who spend more time in digital environments than they do having real-world experiences (see "Getting Our Kids' Brains Back on Track"). One of the ...