Huntington?s Disease is a devastating neurodegenerative genetic disorder which affects particular areas of the brain, progresses with time and worsens...

Scientists at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, USA, studying mammalian spinal cord cells,...

Two weeks ago, lying on a hospital bed after surgery, I was hooked up to a morphine pump so I could self-administer morphine whenever I had pain...

The cell surface protein CD38, found on many immune cells such as leukocytes, is also present in neurons and astrocytes in the brain...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurological disorder that slowly attacks and purloins the minds of its victims...

Implants in the relay station of the visual brain may one day be able to restore sight to those blinded by eye disease. That's what suggests Harvard Medical...

There is an urban myth circulating about migraine headaches, namely that they result in dysfunction of the central nervous system and may ultimately cause...

The "holy grail" of Alzheimer's disease research is prevention. For prevention of Alzheimer's disease we need two components: a way of detecting normal...

Among nature's most impressive feats of engineering is the remarkably flexible and self-optimizing quality of human cognition...