A simple bedside eye test may help predict recovery of consciousness in patients with severe brain injuries, according to new research presented at the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Congress ...

Heading a soccer ball just once is enough to temporarily release proteins into the blood that are associated with damage to brain cells, a new study suggests. For two of the six proteins tracked, ...

Scientists have long known that myelin doesn’t appear everywhere in the brain at once. Some regions myelinate early, others much later, and the timing shapes everything from motor development to ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading edge of science. Patterson, 41, had a brain-computer interface implanted in ...

Vitamin D levels in midlife may play a bigger role in long-term brain health than previously thought. In a study following nearly 800 people over 16 years, those with higher vitamin D levels in their ...

It happens every day at North Shore University Hospital’s busy emergency department in Manhasset — patients who have fallen and hit their head are brought in for evaluation and possible treatment.

Higher serum vitamin D levels in midlife were linked to lower tau pathology in later years in a prospective cohort study. There was no relationship between vitamin D levels and subsequent amyloid ...

Imagination is one of the most powerful things our brains can do. We can relive past events while taking a walk, rehearse future conversations through inner speech or sense the heat of a fire without ...

Numerous studies have confirmed that intelligence is associated with a specific set of religious and political beliefs, including liberalism, anti-racism, free speech, tolerance of others and being ...

The blood biomarker p-tau217 has "shown the most promise in detecting Alzheimer's in the brain," researchers of a new study say. Reading time 3 minutes Your blood might someday reveal much about the ...

Recent advances in brain imaging have given researchers new tools to study anxiety disorders. Using a technique called proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS), scientists can measure brain ...