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Dizziness can fall into a number of broad categories, including vertigo (spinning sensation), presyncope (near-fainting), and disequilibrium (imbalance). When a patient’s description of symptoms appears consistent with one of these categories, physicia…

Neuroscientists recently studied that ‘Aha!’ moment you get when you finally solve a puzzle. It is linked to reward centers and our evolutionary history.

Researchers are looking to the salience network of the brain to develop music-based treatments to help alleviate anxiety in patients with dementia.

Catching psychosis at an early stage is the key to successful treatment. Examining communication between folds on the cortex may predict those at risk.

Biomedical engineers have developed a new technique for measuring blood flow in the human brain, which could be used in patients with stroke or traumatic brain injury, for example. The new technique, based on conventional digital camera technology, cou…

A delusion of grandeur is a false belief in one’s importance or greatness. A person may believe, for instance, that they are famous, can end world wars, or that they are immortal. Grandiose delusions are often caused by mental health conditions, such…

A new study may have revealed the reasons behind our memory limitations. The researchers found that trying to retain too much information in our working memory leads to a communication breakdown between parts of the brain responsible for maintaining it.

Taking a biopsy of a brain tumor is a complicated and invasive surgical process, but a team of researchers is developing a way that allows them to detect tumor biomarkers through a simple blood test.

People with restless legs syndrome may have changes in a portion of the brain that processes sensory information, according to a new study.