The blood-brain barrier plays a critical role in protecting the brain. However, sleep loss can lower its defenses, increasing the vulnerability of the brain.
How does sleep affect the blood-brain barrier?
The “Immune” in Autoimmune Encephalitis: The Role of T and B Cells
How does the immune system work, and what happens when it attacks the brain?
The link between smoking and diabetes
New study reveals how a certain protein plays a role in both nicotine addiction and type II diabetes
Transforming cells to repair the brain
By introducing a single protein, gene therapy can help repair the brain after injury
More than a bug bite
Zika and West Nile viruses cause cognitive problems when immune cells team up
The protein that makes you feel pain
Different conditions uncover how one protein is important in controlling pain
Defining Glioblastoma
New research points to why this deadly cancer is so hard to treat
Why are Alzheimer’s disease drugs failing?
Targeting an important protein in the pathway of Alzheimer’s disease is not proving itself to be the cure-all people hoped for
When Your Brain is on Fire
What happens when your body attacks your brain?
Medical CBD
A compound found in cannabis offers a new treatment for epilepsy
Yoga and the brain
Yoga and meditation may soon be used as interventions for clinical conditions such as depression
Your Brain With A Migraine
Migraines are much more than just headaches, so what exactly is going on in the brain to cause them?
“Zombie” Brains
What did the study that revived dead pig brains actually show?
Deep Brain Stimulation
30 years of DBS and how much we still don’t know
A Gut Feeling
How specific bacteria in your gut are linked to mood disorders and quality of life
Chemo-brain
How do cancer treatments cause thinking and memory problems?
Consciousness and Coma
What happens in the brain to produce disorders of consciousness?
Brains in a Dish
How cerebral organoids are helping scientists model human disease
Shocked into Strolling
Stimulating the spinal cord lets paralyzed patients walk again
Sensory Overload
Can the way we touch affect the way we feel?
What if it’s not Alzheimer’s?
A puzzlingly diverse form of early-onset dementia that you should be aware of
Alzheimer’s disease – an immune system ‘glitch’?
New research implicates the brain’s immune system in Alzheimer’s disease.
Inside the Brain of a Psychopath
Neuroscientists are using brain imaging to try to understand the biological basis of crime
Brain-Computer Interfaces
Forget the mind-body connection, what about the mind-computer connection?
Ketamine: from street drug to depression cure?
Does the new “miracle drug” live up to the hype?
How does space flight affect the brain?
Before we send humans on extended voyages into outer space, it is critical to understand how this foreign environment may affect our central nervous system.
The Double-Edged Sword of HIV Treatment
HIV drugs help people live longer lives, but what are they doing to the brain?
Blitzing the Brain
What happens when someone suffers many concussions, and what’s being done about it?
