Elon Musk’s Neuralink says 10,000 patients have signed up for its brain chip - Tech billionaire wants to use implants to ‘achieve a sort of symbiosis with artificial intelligence’ ...

A consensus is emerging among scientists that certain foods are addictive for some people. But questions remain about which foods, which people and why.

Stress has always been an ugly word, and for good reason. In addition to causing people headaches and sleeplessness, ongoing ...

A new study published in the journal Science provides evidence that long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution ...

The Allen Institute revealed the incredible results of its world-first gene therapy on a disorder linked to autism and ...

San Francisco-based startup Nesos raised $16.5 million on Thursday to fund a medical device that it hopes can train parts of the brain to treat inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Scientists have pinpointed Y1 receptor neurons in the brain that can override chronic pain signals when survival instincts like hunger or fear take precedence. Acting like a neural switchboard, these ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

Creating the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (DPRIT) would mean progress, prevention, and compassion for ...

The ability to detect subtle odors depends on genetics and neuroanatomy. Studying these can offer insights on how the brain ...

In an exciting scientific first, researchers at the Allen Institute successfully designed a new gene therapy that reversed symptoms related to SYNGAP1-related disorders (SRD) in mice.

The prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD) is approximately two times higher in African Americans (AA) compared to White/European-ancestry (EA) individuals living in the U.S. Some of this is due to ...