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Parkinson’s disease creates a number of motor and non-motor symptoms, ranging from tremors and loss of balance to depression. With such a variety of symptoms impacting patients, medical professionals are often forced to prescribe different medications to treat each symptom. But now, MIT neuroscientists have identified three distinct brain circuits that influence both motor and ...

Like with all chronic conditions, dementia treatment is often more effective when doctors are able to detect the disease early in its onset. Early detection allows patients to receive more information, more resources, and more support before the condition begins to impact their daily life. Now, new research from the National University of Ireland (NIU) ...

The human brain’s capacity for memory is truly remarkable. How can one brain store vivid memories ranging from song lyrics to rich experiences to detailed faces? Scientists have long suspected that individual memories are “stored” in multiple areas of the brain – but now, a new study by scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning ...

More than 2.3 million people worldwide have multiple sclerosis (MS), according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. While the cause of MS is unknown, it is considered an autoimmune disease, or a condition in which the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues. Autoimmune researchers have long sought a way to “redirect” immune cells to ...

If you were asked to point to your brain, what would you do? Chances are, you’d point at your head. But don’t forget about your “second brain” – the brain inside your gut, that is. While your gut doesn’t technically have a brain – at least, not the kind of brain you have in your ...