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No positive association seen before age of 40, suggesting link varies across life course.

A team of researchers is the first to systematically record neural activity in the human striatum, a deep brain structure that plays a major role in cognitive and motor function. These two functions are compromised in Parkinson’s disease, which makes t…

A new study indicates that antiepileptic drugs designed to reduce seizures, may also induce psychotic disorders in some patients.

They’re two of the biggest mysteries in Parkinson’s disease research — where does the disease start? And how can it be stopped early in the process?

Whether or not they aced the subject in high school, human beings are physics masters when it comes to understanding and predicting how objects in the world will behave. Cognitive scientists have found the source of that intuition, the brain’s ‘physics…

A new study reveals that a brain region dedicated to reading has connections necessary for that skill even before children learn to read. By scanning the brains of children before and after they learned to read, the researchers found they could predict…

Chronic neuropathic pain — caused by nerve damage as a result of an injury, surgery or a debilitating disease like diabetes or cancer — could be greatly reduced in animals when the injury is treated targeting microglia brain cells within a few days, …

Hay fever may do more than give you a stuffy nose and itchy eyes, seasonal allergies may change the brain, says a new study.

While binge eating affects about 10 percent of adults in the United States, the neurobiological basis of the disease is unclear. Researchers have found that certain neural circuits have the ability to inhibit binge-like eating behavior in mice.

Scientists from Singapore have streamlined the process of using human stem cells to mass produce GABAergic neurons (GNs) in the laboratory.