Psychiatry often espouses brain disease explanations for mental disorders. Psychiatry pursued brain disease models due to ...

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

Huntington’s disease is a rare inherited neurological disorder that progressively affects movement, cognition and mental health due to a genetic mutation ...

A new study reveals a critical vulnerability in a brain receptor targeted by a rare autoimmune disease. Researchers have ...

Some serious brain disorders begin with symptoms that are easy to misinterpret. A person may become confused, forgetful or ...

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: ...

A new study by psychologists at the University of New South Wales in Sydney has provided the clearest evidence yet that voices in the head in schizophrenia may be associated with impaired brain ...

A popular technique for studying brain disorders, known as lesion network mapping (LNM), appears to have a fundamental ...

Scientists discovered why some neurons resist tau toxicity, identifying CRL5SOCS4 as a crucial defense and linking ...

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have identified a mechanism that protects the female brain from genetic diseases. Although one of the two X chromosomes is ...

Alzheimer’s memory loss may be linked to disrupted brain activity during rest, when recent experiences are usually replayed and saved.

Armed with new tools that reveal patterns of connection between brain areas, researchers are gaining clearer insights into ...