Protein marker for a deadly brain tumour identified

Gliomas are untreatable tumours with a poor prognosis, high morbidity and mortality rates

Privacy: UNESCO to develop ethical framework on neurotech devices

Neurotechnology could help solve many health issues, but it could also access and manipulate people’s brains, and produce information about …

Glycogen in neurons of degenerating brains is beneficial: study

A new study by IIT Kanpur suggests that glycogen has a protective role in neurons of patients suffering with neurodegenerative disorders

How COVID-19 affects the brain

Inflammation of the brain; blood clots; damage to the nerves in the body — how COVID-19 virus SARS-CoV-2 affects the human brain&…

Big data may help get new clues on Alzheimer’s

Researchers develop a big data analytics framework to look for early diagnostic biomarkers of the disease

Silent, subtle and unseen: How seizures happen and why they’re hard to diagnose

About 200,000 US adults seek evaluation at hospital’s emergency department for a first lifetime seizure every year

50 years of CT: This is the man you must thank

Hounsfield’s innovation transformed medicine. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1979 and was knighted in 1981

How smart were our ancestors? Turns out the answer isn’t in brain size, but blood flow

Skulls hold clues to intelligence, says this physiology professor

Visual illusion that may help explain consciousness: New study

We tend to assume that our visual consciousness gives us a rich and detailed picture of the entire scene in front of us. The truth is very different

New device promises to make stroke rehabilitation fun

An IIT-Hyderabad-incubated startup makes an upper arm exercising device with a gaming console

Ancient GPS? Older, evolutionarily unchanged part of the brain guides lost fish back home

This part of the brain might perform a similar function in other vertebrates, including humans

A 19-year-old is the youngest person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease — the cause is a mystery

Nearly all cases of Alzheimer’s disease in people younger than 30 are due to inherited faulty genes

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Death: How long are we conscious for and does life really flash before our eyes?

A recent research speculated about life ’flashing’ past moments before death; how sound might it be? 

US researchers establish Parkinson’s origins in gut

The brain disorder is caused by a misfolded protein in the gut that climbs to the brain via a nerve

What if we could know what's going on in your brain without splicing it open

Nerve cells communicate wirelessly too. More neural pathways can explain why different parts of the brain connect quickly during complicated tasks

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Chronic pain can be objectively measured using brain signals — new research

There is a major knowledge gap regarding where and how pain signals are processed in brain

Anatomy of happiness

Stefan Klein explores the complex interplay between positive and negative emotions

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Want to know more about climate crisis, human brain? Here are a few recommendations

Here's a must-read, must-watch, must-attend list for you: A book to better understand why climate change is such a complicated issue, a …

Brain fog after COVID-19? Study shows severe infection can trigger expression of ‘old age’ genes

Inflammation, not virus infiltration in the brain, may be responsible for alteration in brain gene activity