Vortioxetine, an antidepressant, shows promise against glioblastoma in lab tests conducted by ETH Zurich, leading to forthcoming clinical trials. Glioblastoma is an incurable and fatal type of brain ...

Understanding how these harmonies conjure thoughts, memories and emotions is perhaps the greatest scientific question of ...

The human brain could hold one petabyte of data — equivalent to all the movies ever made and in HD.

Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive brain tumor that at present is incurable. Cancer doctors can extend patients' life ...

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have innovated new photoacoustic probes that enable better imaging of ...

As with any type of tumor, brain tumors are an abnormal growth of cells, the number of which will determine, in part, the overall size of the tumor. In the case of benign brain tumors, these cells ...

Illustration of a brain. (credit: INGIMAGE ... The first process entails an increase in the firing rate of the individual ...

Illustration showing a healthy substantia ... to develop therapies capable of slowing down or halting the loss of brain cells,” says Dexter. Excitingly, there are a variety of treatments on ...

Schematic illustration of the three main research directions ... Our lab uses human iPS and ES cells for modeling human disorders of the brain and peripheral nervous system such as Parkinson’s disease ...

It could be a medical condition called essential tremor, and a new study by Singapore’s National Neuroscience Institute has ...

New neurons (brain cells) can be produced in the hippocampus, and seem to help with the creation of new memories. In Alzheimer’s, it seems as if this process of making new neurons (“neurogenesis”) is ...