A new study suggests that dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a ...
Dementia has long been framed as a slow, irreversible loss of neurons, but a new line of research is shifting attention to ...
In the early 1980s, while driving his sports car, the game designer Eugene Jarvis was struck by another vehicle that ran a ...
MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...
About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...
By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.
Memories and learning processes are based on changes in the brain's neuronal connections, and as a result, in signal ...
The secret to a healthier and "younger" heart lies in the vagus nerve. A recent study coordinated by the Sant'Anna School of ...
New research shows preserving cardiac vagal innervation—especially the right vagus nerve—helps protect heart cells and slow ...