Compared to the near total permanent vision loss associated with cortical blindness in adults, which is often due to strokes, children with CVI usually retain some functional vision that may improve ...

Cannabis use may lead to thinning of the cerebral cortex in adolescents, research in mice and humans suggested. The multilevel study demonstrated that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), an active substance ...

The brain is typically depicted as a complex web of neurons sending and receiving messages. But neurons only make up half of the human brain. The other half - roughly 85 billion cells - are ...

Fatigue in post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) may stem from dysfunction of integrative brain regions that drive the motor cortex, a deep phenotyping study ...

New research reveals how the combined impact of amyloid-β and tau deposits alters brain activity patterns in older adults, providing key insights into early Alzheimer’s disease progression. Study: ...

Synaptic plasticity — the brain’s ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning — is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington’s disease, with a direct ...