Scientists have spent decades trying to get medicine across the blood-brain barrier. Two treatments for a rare genetic ...

A new review proposes the Iron-Brain Nexus framework to explain why the brain is uniquely vulnerable to iron-dependent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Thom Leach/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The brain keeps one of the strictest guest lists in the body. Oxygen and nutrients ...

A 16-week randomized controlled crossover trial from Maastricht University Medical Center found that consuming 60 grams of ...

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 ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered key molecular design principles that could help supramolecular therapeutics cross the blood-brain barrier, a major challenge for this novel approach to ...

Alzheimer's disease is one of the most feared diagnoses among older adults, particularly for those who know they carry a high-risk gene that magnifies their odds. But even many people with this ...

Dr. Sandeep Kunwar explained that getting drugs into the brain is a major hurdle for glioblastoma, as the blood-brain barrier blocks most treatments. Dr. Sandeep Kunwar, a neurosurgeon and professor ...

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a selectively permeable interface that preserves the specialised microenvironment of the central nervous system by regulating the bidirectional movement of ions, ...

New research suggests a simple dietary change may help relieve brain fog, chronic pain, and anxiety.

One evening, six-year-old Emeline Trauger was a typical, vibrant little girl growing up with her parents and two siblin ...

Researchers have identified a protein that may help aggressive triple-negative breast cancer spread to the brain and survive once it gets there. The preclinical findings could point toward new ...