Understanding the neurological systems that produce the world inside your head can help you to harness its transformative ...

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

Cerebrospinal fluid can sometimes leak or collect in the brain without an identifiable cause, leading to symptoms that can be difficult to diagnose.

Ministrokes, also known as transient ischemic attacks, can eventually lead to cognitive declines as steep as those that ...

Sleep is one of the best things you can do for your brain. Learning and memory rely on tiny changes in your synapses, and good-quality sleep helps those changes stick. Without enough rest, synapses ...

An unusual collaboration between scientists and psychics could transform the treatment of auditory hallucinations.

More than a billion people around the world suffer from mental disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, Huntington’s, ...

This new drug, JRT, is a “constitutional isomer” of LSD — meaning it has the same atoms, just arranged differently. It binds ...

A new study from Emory University has identified a biological connection between inflammation and deficits in motivation in individuals with schizophrenia, offering new hope for treating symptoms that ...

In recent years, scientists have made big strides in understanding mental health conditions like autism spectrum disorder ...

Sheffield leads a lab at the UChicago Neuroscience Institute, where he and other researchers are working to better understand ...

But new research suggests these drugs could be doing more than helping people shed pounds. Scientists at the University of ...