In 1996, Catherine Stryker'sonly son was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Three years, later,her 28-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. A fewyears after that, the third of her four children was diagnosed. L...

Embryonic stem cells have been used to restore limb movement in paralyzed mice, say scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA. The embryonic stem cells formed nerve connections in the paralyzed mice. This research...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in collaboration with scientists at the City University of New York, have identified a striking dysregulation in neuronal receptor activity in the postmortem brain tissue fr...

Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered how the brain creates a scent symphony from signals sent by the nose. In studies in mice, the researchers found that nerve cells in the brain's olfactory bulb -- the first stop for...

Clinical data from studiesinvolving pramipexole presented at the 20th annual meeting of theAssociated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) demonstrated that treatmentwith pramipexole significantly improved a broad range of restless legs...

Oregon Health and Science University researchers have identified the gene behind a group of rare, progressive childhood disorders caused by an abnormal buildup of iron in the brain. Discovery of the PLA2G6 gene, whose mutated forms trigger...

Controlling a computer just by thought is the aim of cerebral interfaces. The engineer from Pamplona, Carmen Vidaurre Arbizu, has designed a totally adaptive interface that improves the performance of currently existing devices in, reducin...

Understanding what makes people crave the high of nicotine is a key to developing treatment for this highly addictive drug. And that understanding involves tracing the neural machinery by which nicotine switches on the brain's reward machi...

Researchers have discovered that Broca's area in the brain--best known as the region that evolved to manage speech production--is a major "executive" center in the brain for organizing hierarchies of behaviors. Such planning ability, from...

Wiring the developing brain is like creating a topiary garden. Shrubs don't automatically assume the shape of ornamental elephants, and neither do immature nerve cells immediately recognize the "right" target cell. Abundant foliage, either...