Stroke and dementia as well as late-life depression are more common in people who have a biomarker of aging called short ...

Your brain is made up of many specialized areas that work together. Hundreds of different diseases can affect how well it functions. Sometimes, germs can get inside your brain and infect its tissue.

During Tuesday’s episode of The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, Stern, 71, said Joel, 76, was “doing fine” following their ...

Researchers may have found a new way to target the sources of certain brain disorders. In a study led by scientists at Mass General Brigham, deep brain stimulation (DBS) was able to pinpoint ...

More than a billion people around the world suffer from mental disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, Huntington’s, epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety. Brain diseases cost the ...

Brain disorders include any conditions or disabilities that affect your brain. This includes conditions that are caused by: illness genetics traumatic injury This is a broad category of disorders ...

A team of researchers has developed a new way to study how genes may cause autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: by growing tiny brain-like structures in the lab and tweaking their DNA.

But exactly how they contribute is an open question—one that Allen’s group has tried to answer by analyzing astrocytes from the brain cells of mice with various disorders. Through a ...