The study focuses on astrocytes, star-shaped support cells that outnumber neurons but have historically received less ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve ...

The brain is one of the most complex and heterogeneous organs of the human body, comprising an estimated 86 billion neurons and a comparable number of non-neuronal cells, most of which are glia.

During ketamine anesthesia, the brain's nerve cells fall silent—as consciousness returns, they begin to reconnect. For the ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects millions of people worldwide every year and remains a major cause of long-term disability, cognitive decline, and neurological complications. Although neurons have ...

(Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images) The aging human brain is fascinating, because in some ways, it improves with age – but we ...

Treating brain diseases is extraordinarily challenging, because drugs often work poorly and implants require risky surgery that can jeopardize critical brain functions. A group at MIT has sought a ...

A protein called SORLA may act as a powerful defense against the toxic tau tangles involved in Alzheimer’s disease. Mice with extra SORLA had less tau accumulation, less brain atrophy, and healthier ...

Treatment with stem cells is safe and shows signs of slowing brain atrophy in people with progressive MS, per long-term early study data.

Maternal cells that infiltrate children's brains during pregnancy take on different jobs in the brain and may persist into old age.

Kidney disease is often associated with dialysis or transplants, but it also affects memory and concentration, and increases ...

A neurologist's guide to eating for brain health. Here are the foods that support memory, focus and cognition.