Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremor and trouble walking. It can also affect sleep, smell, digestion and even thinking. That may be because the disease disrupts communication in a brain ...

For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been framed as a problem of a single patch of brain tissue that controls movement. New ...

Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremors and trouble walking. It can also affect sleep, smell, digestion and even thinking. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on new research suggesting that's because ...

During the acquisition of correct rejection response, rankings of functional connection separated for cortical and subcortical regions, which is predictive of the peak timing of visual information ...

Scientists at UCSF combined advanced brain-network modeling, genetics, and imaging to reveal how tau protein travels through neural highways and how certain genes either accelerate its toxic journey ...

Researchers have discovered that a brain network involved in reward processing and attention to stimuli is markedly bigger in people with depression, remains stable over time, is unaffected by mood ...

SCIENTISTS have found they can temporarily make people less selfish by applying a mild electrical current to two specific regions of the brain, demonstrating a direct link between brain network ...

Explore the parallels and differences between AI architectures and the human brain's design and functionality in processing ...

When teenagers shift their sleep schedules between school days and weekends, the resulting mismatch can alter the physical ...