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Scientists have long known that the protein tau is involved in dementia, but until recently, they did not understand how it hindered cognitive function. In a new study, researchers reveal how tau disrupts a cell’s ability to strengthen connections with…

Investigators shed light on what may be the root cause of neurological symptoms in patients with mitochondrial diseases by tracing the development of interneurons.

Vital clues about how the brain erases long term memories have now been uncovered.

A panel of sleep and brain injury specialists recommends specific steps to test and develop sleep-related treatments to improve the outcome of mild traumatic brain injury.

While there is no cure, new research shows that patients with Alzheimer’s can still benefit from both physical and cognitive rehabilitation, and that mimicry may be a useful tool to help them regain lost abilities.

A class of commonly used fungicides has been found that produce gene expression changes similar to those in people with autism and neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease.

A new study of more than 440 parents and their preschoolers offers insight into why some parents who binge eat also may try to restrict their children’s food intake, placing their children at…

Death is, of course, inevitable, but discussing it and how to face it certainly is not. A new review aims to discover what makes a ‘good death.’

Zika virus can be detected in blood samples taken from a pregnant woman while brain damage is developing, as well as isolated in cell culture from the brain tissue of the fetus.

The brain is divided into two hemispheres, the right and the left. The left side is dominant in language and speech-motor functions in most people, so when it is damaged by stroke, it can lead to aphasia. Aphasia is difficulty speaking, naming, repeati…