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

A recent grant award in the Department of Neurology serves to help investigators analyze how a group of brain cells may be responsible for changes to neural circuits that lead to the movement disorder ...

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

Memory dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease may be linked to impairment in how the brain replays our recent experiences while ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

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. These are a ...

A genetic breakthrough reveals why mental health conditions often occur together. New research identifies five disorder ...

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: ...

Review of Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders – And How We Can Change That. By Nicole Rust. Princeton University Press. More than a billion people around the world suffer ...

For numerous individuals with schizophrenia, living with the condition involves challenges, not only related to hallucinations or delusions, but also due to subtler difficulties, such as problems ...