Philosophers have been fascinated by the question since Pythagoras. At the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Elaine Chew, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, now teaches a graduate course on using computational and...

Canavan disease is a rare but fatal inherited degenerative brain disorder. It mainly affects children of eastern and central European Jewish (Ashkenazi) descent, which includes about 90 percent of the Jews in America. About one in 40 Ashke...

M. D. Anderson: Setting the Benchmark in Brain Tumor Treatment Promising chemo, therapeutic viruses, cutting-edge surgery debut at Brain Tumor Center Brain tumor specialists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center are poise...

A way to preserve the cells that surround and protect nerves could lead to treatments for demyelinating diseases such a multiple sclerosis, a research team reports in the May 2006, issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. The approach...

The paradoxical therapeutic actions of psychostimulant drugs in people with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are still mysterious. This week, Tanaka et al. shed some light on this question in mice lacking Adcyap1, the ge...

Sexual development and behavior, appetite regulation and obesity, response to stress, even the ability to get a good night's sleep - are all determined by various hormones and their interactions with the brain. Indeed, the neuroendocrine s...

The Avicena Group,Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AVGO) (Avicena), a developer of novelpharmaceutical and therapeutic products, announced today results of a PhaseIII trial of its drug candidate, ALS-02, for the treatment of amyotrophiclateral sc...

Paradigm Spine, LLC ("Paradigm")announced that it has received an Investigational Device Exemption ("IDE")from the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), allowing Paradigm to beginclinical trials for the coflex(TM) device, a functionally dy...

Scientists have long known that brains need neural activity to mature and that sensory input is most important during a specific window of time called the "critical period" when the brain is primed for aggressive learning. Vision, hearing...

Sadly, none of the treatments for epilepsy--anti-seizure medications, a procedure called vagus nerve stimulation, a special diet --could quell the electrical storms in the young boy's brain. Caused by a rare genetic disease called tuberous...