A study of long-distance runners shows the brain’s remarkable ability to adapt—by burning its own fat. A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits.

A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological conditions. Credit...Yuko Shimizu Supported by By Rachel E. Gross ...

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique that brings machine vision closer to how the human brain processes images. Called Lp-Convolution, this method improves the ...

The FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to BCB-276 for the treatment of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), an incurable pediatric brain tumor. BCB-276 is an investigational chimeric ...

Consuming more than eight alcoholic drinks a week is associated with brain injuries linked to Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline, a recent study in the journal Neurology suggests.

Her work provides new insights into how long-term patterns of obesity relate to changes in brain anatomy and cognitive performance, offering a more accurate understanding of obesity’s lasting impact ...

Six recently reported cases of benign (noncancerous) brain tumors among nurses at Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s fifth-floor maternity unit have sparked uneasiness among workers there, even as ...

Neurotech startup Precision Neuroscience on Thursday announced that a core component of its brain implant system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a major win for the ...

Sophisticated synapse imaging used in NIH-funded project tracks changes within neurons as learning unfolds, offering new insights for brain-like AI systems How do we learn something new? How do tasks ...

Two people are believed to have died from a rare and incurable brain disease within just a few months of each other in the United States. According to health officials, three cases of ...