Cancer is a challenging enough diagnosis, but many patients are dealt a second blow, even as they heal: "chemo brain." Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Also called ...

Breathing dirty air in your 40s and 50s could take a toll on your brain well into your senior years. The findings from a King's College London study link higher midlife exposure to common pollutants, ...

In a study published in npj Clean Air, researchers found a potential connection between air pollution and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). Exposure to pollutants such as particulate matter 2 ...

Recent research has unveiled a disturbing connection between elevated levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly known as “forever chemicals,” in mothers’ blood and ...

This virtual public workshop examined scientific, technical, ethical, and regulatory issues related to brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) and related neural interface technologies. It considered ...

Severe stress, as experienced in natural disasters and mass shootings, can cause long-lasting memory problems, and high levels of estrogen in the brain can make women particularly vulnerable.

I’ve been thinking a lot over the years about why mainstream medicine has eschewed neurostimulation and neuromodulation for treating brain injury and other brain issues. Since my university days, I’ve ...

In an NIH-funded study led by researchers from Mass General Brigham, children with more adverse prenatal exposures (APEs) showed higher rates of behavior problems that persisted into mid-adolescence, ...

New research suggests early stress may be linked with later gut issues like IBS and chronic constipation or diarrhea.

Soon after she rounded 50, Susan Shaw noticed that things began slipping through her brain—where she parked her car, who she needed to call, even the birthday of her best friend. An avid multitasker ...

A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a breakthrough in brain imaging by developing the world's first technology to ...