For decades, the scientific theory of depression focused on chemicals — serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine. Nearly every ...

A Cleveland Clinic psychiatrist explains how ketamine therapy is transforming depression treatment—and why it works when ...

Consider two seemingly unrelated medical puzzles. First: Every day, our bodies produce hundreds of billions of new cells, many of which are mutated. If cancer arises from cellular mutation, why don't ...

Scientists have long been racking their brains to crack the mechanism behind Alzheimer’s disease progression. They may have finally found a crucial clue. A research team from Heidelberg University in ...

There are plenty of things lying around your home that are perfectly safe alone, but wildly dangerous when mixed together. Take common household cleaning supplies like vinegar and bleach, for example.

The field of neuroplasticity is increasingly exploring the non-neuronal components that shape synaptic, cellular, and circuit-level adaptation in the brain.

Axons, the fundamental output structures of neurons, play a pivotal role in transmitting electrical signals over long ...