Browsing: Brain

Earlier this year, Billy Joel postponed numerous concerts due to a then-unspecified medical condition. The musician and his team have now canceled those shows and revealed…

Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell, the company behind Half-Life and DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike and preeminent PC game distribution platform Steam, has long toyed with…

When women start menopause, their bodies and brains have to calibrate to the sharp drop in estrogen, Dr. Caldwell explains. “For some women, that appears to…

His brain was diagnosed as having chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) – a form of degenerative disease dementia which is believed to be caused by repeated blows.Greater…

Healthy nerve cells can be transplanted to treat Parkinson’s disease, but they risk rejection by the recipient’s immune system.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo LibraryHuman brain cells engineered…

The human brain is so complex that scientific brains have a hard time making sense of it. A piece of neural tissue the size of a…