Researchers identify prochlorperazine as a potential new treatment for temporal lobe epilepsy by restoring the KCC2 chloride ...

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

Researchers found three master genes that alter brain development in Down syndrome, offering new clues about learning and memory differences.

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

Unlike treatments that focus on removing plaques that have already formed, levetiracetam works differently. It blocks the ...

Fat-based vesicles help deliver GM1 to the brain, improving movement and extending survival in mouse models of ALS, a study finds.

Many patients suffer from epilepsy that cannot be controlled by current medications. Surgical removal of epileptogenic brain regions is effective in only about half of cases, and not all patients are ...

For decades, scientists and doctors believed that Alzheimer's disease was mostly genetic and certainly not preventable. But ...

Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have engineered brain cells to hunt and destroy amyloid plaques, cutting toxic buildup by roughly half in aged mice with advanced Alzheimer’s-like ...

Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.

When you get better at a skill-recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game-sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...