Cancer survivors, take note. The mental fog and forgetfulness of "chemo brain" are no figment of your imagination. A UCLA study shows that chemotherapy causes changes to the brain's metabolism and blood flow that can linger at least 10...

NIH is funding a recent effort aimed at studying drugs that might prevent dementia and other cognitive dysfunctions among HIV-positive people, a condition also known as "neuroAIDS," the AP/ABC News reports. At least one in five HIV-positiv...

Emory University researchers have found that giving progesterone to trauma victims shortly following brain injury appears to be safe and may reduce the risk of death and the degree of disability. The results of this study--the first clinic...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have found clues to how the brain and the stomach interact with emotions to cause overeating and obesity. By looking at how the human brain responds to "full...

Sixteen-year-olds who weighed less than 2,000 grams (about 4.5 pounds) at birth and are not disabled are still more likely than the average teenager to have physical and mental difficulties, according to a report in the October issue of Ar...

The Wall Street Journal on Monday examined several studies that look at the effect of estrogen use during and after menopause to boost brain function in women. According to the Journal , women have "long complained that their brains don't...

Final results from a large, open-label study(1) demonstrate that repeated treatment with botulinum toxin type A (or BoNTA, marketed as BOTOX(R) by Allergan, Inc.) safely reduces upper limb (wrist, finger and/or arm) spasticity following st...

Although drugs that target the brain's serotonin system are widely used to treat depression, the basic biological mechanism by which they help to alleviate symptoms is poorly understood. Now, University of Pittsburgh research suggests...

UCB(Euronext Brussels: UCB) and Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the signing of an expanded product license agreement for Xyrem(R) (sodium oxybate). Under the agreement, UCB obtains the right to commercialize Xyrem for the treatm...

Two Online/Articles published by The Lancet Neurology pave the way for future research into possible genetic associations in Parkinson's disease (PD), as data from hundred of patients and healthy controls are, for the first time, made publ...