Neuroscience

Repairing damaged nerves in a rodent study marks a crucial first step toward bringing back lost movement

A new discovery shows how sound waves become brain waves—it may help find new therapies for the deaf

Most people diagnosed with the disease survive less than two years

A controversial new study in lab mice hints at sex-based differences in cosmic ray–induced cognitive decline

Fat desensitizes the brain to a hormone that diminishes appetite

Neurologist Steven Laureys looks for signs of consciousness in unresponsive patients

Stephen Asma, professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, talks about his two latest books, The Evolution of Imagination and Why We Need Religion.

How does the brain know where it is? Nachum Ulanovsky hopes his flying friends can help him find the answer

It's not just about rebellion. Neuroscience is revealing adolescents' rich and nuanced relationship with risky behavior

Shutting down an overactive enzyme could become a general treatment, rather than one solely intended for the few who inherit a mutated Parkinson’s gene

Long thought to be divorced from the brain, the immune system turns out to be intimately involved in its functioning