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A bad night’s sleep does even more damage than we first thought - Participants were classed as having chronic insomnia if their medical records contained at least two insomnia diagnoses a month apart ...

Families are elated by news of the first treatment for Huntington's disease - but when and how will the NHS fund it?

The scourge of motor neurone disease (MND) is present in society, but the percentage of cases is significantly higher among ...

Researchers have long believed that neurons rely on glucose nearly entirely for fuel. The brain’s enormous energy ...

“It’s possible that the mice weren’t seeing them,” admits Shin, “because the technique has involved a relatively small number ...

A team at University of Massachusetts Amherst developed artificial neurons that fire in the same voltage range as living ...

Scientists have discovered a group of brain cells in the orbitofrontal cortex that become more active when outcomes are uncertain, revealing how the brain adapts and learns from unpredictable ...

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

Many people assume coverage for teeth works the same as other insurance. It doesn’t. By Erica Sweeney Imagine you go to the dentist with an achy tooth. They say you need a root canal and a crown, ...

Don’t sleep on this troubling sign that may increase your risk of dementia. Age, genetics, high blood pressure, unmanaged Type 2 diabetes, smoking and untreated hearing loss are among the major risk ...

“Like riding a bike” is shorthand for the remarkable way that our bodies remember how to move. Most of the time when we talk ...