One of the biggest barriers to diagnoses of brain disorders is that symptoms — particularly those of apathy — can be mistaken ...

A powerful new AI called Prima can read brain MRIs in seconds, diagnosing neurological conditions with up to 97.5% accuracy ...

A recent grant award in the Department of Neurology serves to help investigators analyze how a group of brain cells may be responsible for changes to neural circuits that lead to the movement disorder ...

A team of researchers at RPI, in collaboration with the University of South Florida, University of North Carolina, and The Neural Stem Cell Institute, have made a discovery that opens the door to new ...

Researchers led by Beijing's Changping Laboratory have identified a specific brain network whose dysfunction appears central to Parkinson's disease, a finding that helps explain how existing ...

For decades, scientists have searched for a safe way to reach deep parts of the human brain without cutting into the skull.

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...

Synaptic plasticity - the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning - is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington's disease, with a direct ...

Review of Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders – And How We Can Change That. By Nicole Rust. Princeton University Press. More than a billion people around the world suffer ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular sanitation machines responsible for those tasks, called lysosomes, break ...