One reason exercise is so powerful is that it may be able to reverse the neurodegeneration seen in patients with Parkinson’s disease. For instance, a small study published earlier this year looking at ...

Scientists at McGill University, Canada , may have found a key to treating the neurological disease - by transplanting brain ...

This is not just some alternative treatment or unproven technique,” says neuroscientist Dan Levitin. “We now have a rigorous ...

Some researchers seek to establish a single abnormal result on a set of biomarker-based tests as sufficient to diagnose the ...

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Researchers have identified a potential diagnostic tool for schizophrenia by measuring brain cell activity between the ...

This important study partially fills the gap in the knowledge of olfaction at the level of the Anterior Olfactory Nucleus (AON) and Piriform Cortex with functional magnetic resonance imaging, ...

In Alzheimer’s, some research suggests that a buildup of prion proteins in the brain may contribute to the devastating loss of short- and long-term memory. “Long-term memory shapes our personality, ...

A person's brain performs an intricate juggling act while watching a movie, a new study demonstrates. Scans showed that 24 ...

Who said watching movies all day can’t be educational? Scientists have just unveiled the most detailed functional map of the ...

By scanning the brains of people while they watched movie clips, neuroscientists have created the most detailed functional ...

Two recent chemistry studies pinpoint reactions that may link the gut microbiome to the development of Parkinson's disease.