We often believe that just lying or resting for few hours could recharge our bodies or let them relax but we forget the real ...

For decades, scientists have searched for ways to stop Alzheimer’s disease before it destroys large areas of the brain. While ...

Aaron Phelps, born with Type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), graduated high school after doctors told his mother there was a ...

Novartis already received FDA approval of ITVISMA as a gene therapy for the treatment of patients with SMA. Read why NVS ...

Creatine plays an important role in supplying the brain with energy. Early research indicates high doses of the supplement could improve cognition in people whose brains are stressed.

Within 400 milliseconds, your brain and face begin responding to another person's smile, setting off a cascade that researchers are only beginning to understand.

Parkinson’s disease is a long-term brain disorder that slowly damages nerve cells involved in movement. It affects millions of people around the world and becomes more common with age. The disease is ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) received widespread attention in the summer of 2014 thanks to the Ice Bucket Challenge. Millions of people participated, drenching themselves in ice-cold water to ...

Blind Mexican cavefish became active in light while surface fish reacted to darkness, revealing how evolution rewired brains.

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

Whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) may improve ALS diagnostic certainty. WB-MRI assesses muscle swelling (edema) as a marker for lower ...

Blindness itself might become, at least in certain cases, partially reversible. This potential future stems from one of the most intriguing developments in regenerative medicine: epigenetic ...