Brain

As someone who enjoys video games myself, I’ve always been a little skeptical of the conventional wisdom that playing video games has only negative cognitive and behavioral effects.

Drinking any amount of alcohol during pregnancy was associated with changes and delays in fetal brain development, according to data presented at the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting.

Researchers at Emory University are developing a visual tool to view how conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and autism spectrum disorder affect the brain in real-time, the university announced in a press release.

A team of researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have developed an online platform of metrics designed to assess a patient’s risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological issues.

CHICAGO — ANA president-elect M. Elizabeth Ross, MD, PhD, discusses highlights from her presentation on three-dimensional cultures of brain organoids at the 2022 American Neurological Association’s annual meeting.

“Chemo brain” — a collection of cognitive symptoms related to memory, concentration and organization — is a potentially upsetting and debilitating adverse effect of cancer treatment.

A Tulane University neurosurgeon is among the first to perform a procedure with Minnetronix Medical’s MindsEye expandable port, a minimally invasive device for surgical treatment of stroke, cancer and other neurological conditions.

Researchers identified a correlation between eGFR and urine albumin-creatinine ratio with structural brain damage across various regions of etiology, according to data published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

LAS VEGAS— Grief, and particularly prolonged grief, can rewire the brain, but engaging in therapy, healthy habits and support systems can restore connections and aid the healing process, according to a speaker at BRAINWeek 2022.

The NIH has awarded nearly $10 million to two scientists at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine for research projects that aim to shed light on the development of the brain’s cellular infrastructure as well as brain disorders.