The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a non-profit medical research organization founded by investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Jody Allen Patton, today announced a series of key findings that shed light on the structural and ce...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have identified a genetic regulator of brain development that sheds light on how immature neural cells choose between proliferation and differentiation. D...

Why do we forget? Do memories decay on their own, or are they harmed by interference from similar memories? Using a technique called "transcranial magnetic stimulation" (TMS), brain researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may ha...

The ebb and flow of such autoimmune diseases as multiple sclerosis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis has long been a perplexing mystery. But findings from the Stanford University School of Medicine bring scientists closer to solving the...

Researchers at Edinburgh, St Andrew's and Bristol Universities in the UK have found that a protein linked to Alzheimer's in humans also builds up in the brain cells of aged cats who suffer from the same symptoms. Post mortems on cats who h...

Dr. Pierre Drapeau, a researcher funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and professor and chairman of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Universite de Montreal, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Barbara Turnbull...

Brain cells derived from human embryonic stem cells improved the condition of rats with Parkinson's-like symptoms dramatically, but the treatment caused a significant problem - the appearance of brain tumors - that scientists are now worki...

A 20-year study of Danish cell phone users shows short or long term use of cell phones is not linked to increased risk of brain cancer. The study conducted by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark...

A method of treatment can appreciably slow down the progress of the fatal brain disease scrapie in mice. This has been established by researchers from the Universities of Munich and Bonn together with their colleagues at the Max Planck...

Jonathan Moreno discusses his book, Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (Nov. 2006/Dana Press) in a public lecture featuring Jennifer Bard, Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law Program, Texas Tech University; and,...