Glioblastoma is among the most feared diagnoses in medicine, an aggressive brain cancer that has long resisted meaningful ...

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia. For many years, researchers believed that its main cause was a ...

Caltech researchers have developed BrainCAB, a small-molecule delivery system designed to help medicines cross the ...

The brain has long been treated as a protected zone, walled off from the immune cells that patrol the rest of the body. A new ...

In a promising sign for the potential of focused sound waves to improve care for brain tumors, UVA Health researchers have determined that tumors called gliomas may be even more receptive to targeted ...

KULLERVO HYNYNEN is preparing to cross neuroscience’s final frontier. In July he will work with a team of doctors in the first attempt to open the blood-brain barrier in humans – the protective layer ...

Research, led by teams at Trinity College Dublin and the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Center, has pinpointed the mechanism linking some sports injuries to poor brain health in retired athletes. The ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to understand exactly how years of taking hits to the head while playing sports can translate into severe memory loss and dementia later in life. The work is a ...

Aging may trigger a previously underrecognized change in the brain’s immune system, with protective cells in the hippocampus ...

The study analyzed postmortem tissue from the hippocampus in 40 neurologically healthy adults, ranging from 20 to 95 years of ...

New research points to certain immune cells in our lymph nodes that play a key role in causing the brain damage seen with ...

The brain is our most treasured possession. It coordinates our movements, our words, our relationships, and the ability to pass on our genes. Our body therefore protects the organ fiercely: The ...