brain

Researchers have developed a method to identify new targets for human disease, including neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

The largest ever study of the genetics of the brain – encompassing some 36,000 brain scans – has identified more than 4,000 genetic variants linked...

Researchers have developed a new type of neural implant that could restore limb function to amputees and others who have lost the use of their arms...

Researchers have built the first ever map showing every single neuron and how they’re wired together in the brain of the fruit fly larva.

Water – which makes up the majority of every cell in the body – plays a key role in how proteins, including those associated with Parkinson’s disease...

A new genetic discovery adds weight to a theory that motor neurone degenerative diseases are caused by abnormal lipid (fat) processing pathways...

For the first time, researchers have used human data to quantify the speed of different processes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease and found that it...

Researchers from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute have developed two tests that can detect the presence of glioma, a type of brain tumour...