(OsakaWayne Studios/Moment/Getty Images) A new study has uncovered a connection between malfunctions in the brain's waste ...

Despite ongoing challenges — including hearing loss, mobility complications, and continued medical care — Sarah maintains a ...

If you ask someone how to lower their risk of a heart attack, most people can name a few steps. But if you ask how to reduce dementia risk, many would assume it is out of their control. But that ...

Slow, sleep-like brainwaves persist in part of the brain that has been surgically disconnected from the rest of the organ, even though the person is awake. The findings 1, published in PLoS Biology, ...

What if a technology could reanimate parts of the body that have lost their connection to the brain—like a bladder that can no longer empty due to a spinal cord injury, or intestines that can't push ...

Speaking is one of the most complicated things a human can do. Before you even say a word, your brain has to translate what you want to say into a perfectly sequenced set of instructions to the dozens ...

After suffering a brain injury at birth, Laura became a radiant presence with an amazing ability to draw sensitive caregivers ...

Ahead of World Autism Awareness Day on April 2, we speak with experts and researchers to understand the neurodivergent ...

It had been a good night—good food, good people, the kind of gathering I'd looked forward to all week. I walked in the door, ...

In 1997, Alan Leshner, then director of the National Institute for Drug Abuse, wrote an article entitled “Addiction Is a Brain Disease and It Matters.” That eight-word title became the perfect sound ...