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Report identifies 3 top actions to help promote cognitive healthGradual and variable change in mental functions that occurs naturally as people age, not as part of a neurological disease such as…

Effects of violent games on aggression are similar for adults with and without autism, study findsFollowing the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, some in the media and the public speculated…

A drug commonly taken to prevent seizures in epilepsy may surprisingly protect the eyesight of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a new study.

How does our auditory system represent time within a sound? A new study investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can be represented by neural activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the brain for the perception of sound.

Significant vascular changes in the brains of people with Huntington’s disease have been identified by researchers. This breakthrough will have significant implications for our understanding of the disease and could open the door to new therapeutic tar…

For a condition such as epilepsy, it is essential to act at exactly the right time and place in the brain. For this reason, a team of researchers has developed an organic electronic micropump which, when combined with an anti-convulsant drug, enables l…

By analyzing the activity of ‘GPS’ neurons in mice, researchers have discovered that the mental maps created by these cells accumulate errors, which are corrected when the animal encounters a wall. The findings support the theory that these cells, call…

‘By studying language in people with aphasia, we can try to accomplish two goals at once: we can improve our clinical understanding of aphasia and get new insights into how language is organized in the mind and brain,’ said the lead author of a new study.

We look at the main causes of hair loss in women, the emotional impact it can have and why research into new treatments for female hair loss appears to have been lagging.

The first direct evidence has been found demonstrating that a low dose of electric current can enhance the brain’s natural alpha oscillations to boost creativity by an average of 7.4 percent. Next up: using the method to treat depression, scientists say.