A new study sheds light on one of the most severe consequences of stroke: damage to the brain's 'cables'-- the so-called nerve fibers -- which leads to permanent impairments.

Specific protein receptors in the brain play a vital role in how neurons slow down or stop firing, making them targets for many disorders. Researchers have now constructed a detailed structural map of ...

TUESDAY, Jan. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Black people with obesity are less likely to get weight-loss surgery than others. Black people are just as likely to discuss the procedure with their ...

The move is under the new National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Commercial Research Delivery Centres (CRDCs) programme set up to offer clinical trials to patients who have the ...

The Amyloid—Tangle Connection. Aβ aggregates (green) hyper-excite neurons in tau epicenters and connected regions, strengthening that connectivity. This pushes tau propagation from one region to ...

Surgically implanted brain-computer interface enables precise finger control in paralysis patient, unlocking potential for social and leisure activities like video gaming Study: A high-performance ...

Addiction corrupts the ability to make choices.Addiction brings about changes in the brain, but those changes do not reflect a pathological process. The pathways to addiction can be difficult to ...

California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical records and telling them they don’t have to assist federal agents in arrests.

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part ...

We enrolled 238 patients older than 16 years with moderate to severe TBI (post-resuscitation Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 4 to 12) who had a computerized tomography (CT) brain scan within eight hours ...