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Social anxiety can have a crucial impact on a person’s well-being and quality of life. Read this Spotlight feature for tips on how to manage it.

Researchers show how in genetic forms of Alzheimer’s, a process called neurogenesis, or the creation of new brain cells, can be disrupted by the brain’s own immune cells.

Tiny changes in the microscopic structure of the human brain may affect how patients respond to an emerging therapy for neurological problems.

Researchers have combined two high profile, large-scale datasets to produce something completely new — a first draft model of the rules guiding neuron-to-neuron connectivity of a whole mouse neocortex. They generated statistical instances of the micro…

Scientists have created miniature brains from stem cells that developed functional neural networks. Despite being a million times smaller than human brains, these lab-grown brains are the first observed to produce brain waves that resemble those of pre…

Researchers have found that a protein called TREM2 could positively influence the course of Alzheimer’s disease.

Research raises new concerns about the vulnerability of the preterm brain to hypoxia. Results confirm that brain cells do not die as previously believed. Rather, hippocampal cells fail to mature normally, causing a reduction in long-term potentiation, …

A new study gives insight into how cancer immunotherapies might one day be delivered directly to the brain in order to treat brain tumors. The study demonstrated that a new type of nano-immunotherapy traversed the blood-brain barrier in laboratory mice…

The researchers emphasized the preliminary nature of their findings and recommended further research in individuals with MS, as well in other populations with non-neurologic conditions, and healthy controls.

A medication that boosts the body’s own cannabis-like substances, endocannabinoids, shows promise to help the brain un-learn fear memories when these are no longer meaningful. These results, obtained in an early-stage, experimental study on healthy vol…