We have only just started to understand how our brains clean themselves, but columnist Helen Thomson finds promising evidence ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are still fairly common and an estimated 40 million people worldwide are ...

MOG antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) is a rare autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. The blood of patients ...

A Cedars-Sinai study has identified a previously unknown role for astrocyte cells in how the brain responds to damage and disease. Cedars-Sinai researchers have identified a biological repair process ...

The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you ...

New research tracks how THC exposure during pregnancy disrupts fetal brain development and leads to sustained structural ...

The claim that the brain, and particularly the frontal lobe, finishes developing at 25 is far less solid than social media ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

Christmas foods feel special because they activate multiple brain systems at once. Smell, taste, texture, memory and seasonal ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

Your nose’s superpower is thanks to a “superhighway” that leads directly into your brain. The olfactory system runs straight to the hippocampus, or your memory hub, whereas other sensory systems have ...