Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury. And a new study in Science shows meat has never been the main fuel source ...

Fruit, honey and other naturally sweet foods may have helped fuel the evolution of the human brain, according to new research from the University of Sydney and the University of Glasgow.

A cutting-edge immunotherapy could help kids fight — and even banish — brain tumors, the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in children. The new treatment falls under a category called T-cell ...

While Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, many of the molecular mechanisms that drive its progression remain poorly understood. While researchers have cataloged changes in gene ...

Four children with traditionally incurable brain cancers are still alive years after receiving an experimental immune-boosting cell therapy in a clinical trial. Three of them even display no evidence ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view was that the secret of human intelligence lay mainly in scale: the sheer ...

Emerging evidence suggests that only certain types of training produce meaningful benefits, and those benefits may differ ...

Researchers have discovered that a microscopic skeleton inside neurons does much more than hold cells together. It acts as a gatekeeper that controls what brain cells absorb and when they absorb it.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects millions of people worldwide every year and remains a major cause of long-term disability, cognitive decline, and neurological complications. Although neurons have ...

The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive. It was 9 a.m. on ...

Four children diagnosed with one of the deadliest brain cancers known to medicine – a tumor type where fewer than one in a hundred patients survives five years – are alive today with no evidence of ...

Brianna Tobritzhofer is a nationally credentialed Registered Dietitian and experienced health writer with over a decade of leadership in nutrition program development, policy compliance, and public ...