A little-known and poorly understood sleep disorder that occurs during the rapid eye movement, or REM, stage of sleep has ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

Memory loss can point in more than one direction. A patient may seem to fit Alzheimer’s disease, only to have signs that also ...

The four-year-old has regained the ability to walk after being diagnosed with a rare brain disease.

A fat-producing enzyme in brain cells may play a key role in driving damage in Parkinson's disease and could offer a new ...

A new study has brought scientists one step further in the direction of developing a cure for a brutal group of rare brain disorders known as SYNGAP1-related disorders, or SRDs. Researchers were able ...

Researchers have developed a cutting-edge technique that uses RNA “barcodes” to map how neurons connect, capturing thousands ...

When brain development gets off to a bad start, the consequences are lifelong. One example is a condition called SCN2A haploinsufficiency, in which children are born with just one functioning copy of ...

The next surprise was that human organoids just kept growing. Mouse organoids were done with making neurons within nine days.

A school-aged child in L.A. recently died after developing a rare neurological disease years after contracting the measles. Authorities didn’t reveal many details about the case, except that the child ...

The symptom profiles of different neurodegenerative diseases often overlap, and diagnosing age-related cognitive symptoms is ...

A recent case study found a possible new trigger for a dangerous, and sometimes fatal, virus that could be laying dormant in ...