Using MRI images and physical calculations, team led by Hebrew University PhD student gains vital data previously available only via autopsy or tissue sample examinations

Restoring power of speech to those who lost it due to illness or accident is becoming more plausible, based on results from two implants that show encouraging results

Volunteers in joint study with UCLA did 10% better on recall tests, demonstrating how communication between hippocampus and cerebral cortex helps consolidate memories while asleep

Research done at Hebrew University could lead to better understanding of genetic origins of the disease, as well as treatments to prevent or slow cognitive deterioration

Weizmann Institute neuroimmunologist bucked convention to prove that brain is not isolated from immune system, leading to possible therapies to treat Alzheimer's and other diseases

GrayMatters Health says world's first non-invasive apparatus for stress disorder will teach patients how to regulate activity in the part of the brain that controls emotion

Brothers from an upper-class family survived with serious illness for years, and one underwent the radical procedure of trephination more than 3,500 years ago, discovery reveals

US, Japanese drugmakers announce results of full study, but remains unclear how much of a difference it may make to lives of those affected by the condition

Scientists integrate human brain cells into newborn rats, taking 'our ability to study human brain development, evolution and disease into uncharted territory'

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, disproportionately found among Jews of Libyan and Tunisian origin, is notoriously hard to diagnose