New research published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that prolonged and/or repeated exposure to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) anesthetic agents ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a brain disease linked to repeated hits to the head, often seen in military veterans and athletes.

Even six years after brain tumor surgery, invisible symptoms like brain fog and memory loss shape how I live, cope, and find gratitude every day.

In this study, we found that MCAO rats exhibited an increase in the numbers of NG2-positive OPCs and newly generated CNPase-positive oligodendrocytes along the peri-infarct striatum and cortex, ...

The brain relocates its functions depending on the hemisphere used for language in left-handers A study by the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló examines the phenomenon of atypical brain ...

Left and right brains hear speech differently, yet how this divide forms was unclear − until mouse studies showed each hemisphere runs on its own developmental clock.

Defying death two years after brain cancer diagnosis: studies build hope in CAR-T Most patients in two small glioblastoma trials responded to treatment for months, and some much longer ...

The primary endpoint was contralateral breast cancer at 10 years, and secondary endpoints included ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence, other cancers, metastatic breast cancer, and death.

Trauma centers nationwide will begin to test a new approach for assessing traumatic brain injury (TBI) that is expected to lead to more accurate diagnoses and more appropriate treatment and follow ...

Why does the brain split visual spatial perception between its hemispheres? A new review by neuroscientists examines the advantages and trade-offs, and how the brain ultimately makes vision feel ...

Intraluminal middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model in rats has been widely used to mimic human ischemic stroke and serves as an indispensable tool in the stroke research field. One limitation ...