Leukemia is now the leading cause of cancer deaths among children and teenagers, unseating top ranker brain cancer. In the late 1990s,...
Scientists from Stanford University have identified a brain circuit that plays a major role in the sleep-wake cycle of humans. This circuit...
A prolonged legal battle in California ended with the death of a brain-dead toddler after being taken off life support, Fox News...
Sleep deprivation has different effects on various parts of the brain, a new study suggests. For example, areas of the brain that...
Overweight adults past the age of 40 may experience faster brain aging compared to those of normal weight, a new study suggests. The...
A new research has found that female smokers are at a higher risk for brain bleeds – strokes that are characterized by...
The gene that raises the risk for Alzheimer’s Disease in adults also affects brain development and mental abilities in children, a new...
A brain-eating amoeba killed an 18-year-old teenager from Ohio, health officials reported Wednesday. According to a report from CNN, the teenager had...
The interest in brain-training programs has increased as companies like Lumosity or NeuroNation constantly push their products’ supposed benefits in boosting a...
Research shows that an experimental viral treatment might prolong the lives of patients with near-untreatable brain cancer. In the experimental treatment, which...
New research now suggests that a busy schedule could be very good for the brain. The new study of older adults shows...
The staple science-fiction movie plot of reawakening a frozen brain has come one step closer to reality, according to a recent piece...
‘Mini-brains’, the size of a housefly’s eye, are being produced in batches of over a thousand at a time by researchers at...
A relatively new cancer treatment called proton beam therapy, or proton therapy for short, appears to treat the childhood brain cancer known...
Recent studies show that consuming high amounts of fish can actually benefit a baby’s brain function. Contrary to the belief that the...
During Pope Francis’s visit to Philadelphia, the pontiff met with countless people, inspiring millions. But one family says what they experienced was...
Scientists may never know exactly why humans are happy or unhappy, but they are a little closer to determining where it’s located...
Chimpanzees are the closest living relative that humans have. It has been known for some time that they are quite intelligent —...
A team of Canadian doctors have successfully and non-invasively broken through the blood-brain barrier that protects the brain in order to deliver...
In a breakthrough for the controversial European neuroscience project which aims to digitize the human brain, the Blue Brain Project has created...