The progressive brain disease can be caused by repeated trauma to the head and has caused serious health problems for ...

When treating brain disease, getting medication to the brain is difficult. But after 15 years of development, a Baltimore ...

“CTE is linked to repetitive brain trauma and has a distinct pathology that can only be diagnosed at autopsy,” says Dr. Ross ...

While Alzheimer's is closely associated with abnormal clumps and tangles of proteins damaging neurons inside the brain, their ...

Scientists have discovered how harmful clumps inside brain cells—linked to diseases like ALS and Huntington’s—form, and found a way to break them apart. These sticky tangles of RNA develop inside tiny ...

Why does the brain of some people stay sharp into their 80s and beyond? An expert explains what 25 years of exploring the ...

Your brain has its own elite defense team — and new research shows these "guardian" cells might be the real battleground for ...

Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases, genetic disorders affecting the brain, have no effective treatment and are typically fatal ...

Encephalitis is a potentially life-threatening condition that involves inflammation of the brain. While some cases of encephalitis are caused by a ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have discovered that lithium, known for treating bipolar disorder, plays a crucial role in ...

One-third of people older than 85 in the United States are estimated to live with Alzheimer's disease today, according to the ...

As well as helping to prevent the disease, researchers say their findings could support healthy brain aging in general.