Neurology

The drop suggests certain actions may reduce disease risk

There are tantalizing hints that women respond differently to concussion, perhaps due to hormonal cycles. What's needed now: more female brains to study

Physicians are hired and fired by the team, not the athletes

More than two million healthy people played a game that could detect declining navigation skills, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s

A leader of the recently announced effort describes its goal of helping the world’s aging population find desperately needed treatments for psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases

Scientists uncover how non-neuronal cells induce synaptic plasticity in pain circuits, potentially across long distances

A brain plaque inhibitor developed by Merck is now being tested in larger studies for efficacy against the still unstoppable neurodegenerative disease

The progressive neurological disorder involves inflammation in the brain

Finding signs of consciousness among severely brain-injured patients is medically challenging—and morally imperative 

During microsleep, the entire brain nods off so briefly that we often don’t notice it. Now research shows that individual neurons in the brain can slumber, too, especially when we are sleep-deprived 

A look inside the new issue of Scientific American Mind

Metformin may slow or reverse dementia and cognitive impairment, even in nondiabetics