Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.

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A Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered a promising new therapeutic approach for a rare genetic brain disorder, according ...

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For decades, scientists have investigated the neurokinin-1 receptor (NK1R) as a potential target for treating major depressive disorder. Early studies suggested promise, but enthusiasm faded after ...

Scientists have identified a promising target for treatment of a devastating autoimmune disease affecting the brain.

Using a mouse model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, researchers found that early, chronic cannabidiol treatment ...

A new MIT study finds that somatostatin-expressing neurons follow a unique trajectory when forming connections in the brain’s ...

Research led by the SickKids Research Institute in Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania, has found that immune-related ...

Gut Microbes may have helped fuel the evolution of large human brains, shaping brain metabolism and gene activity, new ...

BEIJING -- Chinese researchers have developed an in vivo embryonic mouse intrauterine imaging technique, which has elucidated the dynamic process of brain development in embryonic mice in vivo, the ...

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