Scientists have provided insights into how the brain is organised - knowledge which could eventually inform diagnosis of and treatments for conditions like Alzheimer's disease and autism. A study by Newcastle University, UK, and the In...

Neurosurgeon Dr. Mark Souweidane is using an endoscope, a pencil-sized shaped camera, to reach near the center of the brain and to remove intraventricular brain tumors in children. These tumors, which may be malignant or benign, can grow t...

In another clinical research trial in the Department of Neurological Surgery, Dr. Theodore Schwartz, an associate professor and principal investigator, is collaborating with Dr. Minah Suh, an assistant professor, to study if optical imagin...

Neurosurgeons Dr. John Boockvar and Dr. Theodore Schwartz are studying in clinical research trials how to improve the prospects of patients with brain tumors such as glioblastoma (GBM) and anaplastic astrocytoma (AA). GBM and AA are partic...

For the first time, scientists have been able to watch neurons within the brain of a living animal change in response to experience. Thanks to a imaging system, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have gotten...

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego have shown that instead of trying to deliver therapeutic agents for neurodegenerative diseases across the highly impermeable blood-brain barrier via the blood, therapeutic molecules...

For the first time, scientists have been able to watch neurons within the brain of a living animal change in response to experience. Thanks to a imaging system, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have gotten...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine estimate that the human retina can transmit visual input at about the same rate as an Ethernet connection, one of the most common local area network systems used today. They...

Dr. John Cavanagh, professor of molecular and structural biochemistry, teamed with colleagues from the Mayo Clinic and Duke University to describe the shape of the protein, calbindin-D28K. Understanding a protein's structure allows researc...

A unique nerve-stimulation treatment for epilepsy developed at UCLA offers a potential alternative for tens of thousands of individuals unable to control their seizures with medication and ineligible for surgery. Developed by neuroscie...