Neurosciences

It is a situation many parents will recognize: a wayward child is throwing a tantrum in a store. The parent takes the child by the ...

For Alaa Koleilat, pursuing a doctorate is a tale of two mentors with a few tails thrown in for good measure. With the help of ...

As we age and forget why we walked into a particular room, we may joke about our incipient "Alzheimer's." But Alzheimer's disease is no joke. It's a ...

Despite efforts by researchers, experts are still unable to determine a genetic basis of disease for many people diagnosed. One reason: “camouflaged” genes. These are hidden chromosome regions ...

Just outside the limelight, the next generation of researchers is preparing for their shot at making science fiction into fact. When a Mayo team of ...

Ouch! The response is always the same to the sharp, sudden surprise of a paper cut. The body responds quickly to the tear in the ...

For the millions of people who have migraine, the search for pain relief can feel like a nightmare game. “Spin the wheel, see what drug you ...

Neuroscientist Tania Gendron, Ph.D. was in her lab on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus when she received a phone call. On the line was a neurologist ...

Providing an unprecedented increase in funding, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently doubled down on studies of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Researchers on ...

Epilepsy strikes without warning, when an electrical storm sweeps across the brain. Storm-chasing teams of researchers have adopted computational techniques to pinpoint and predict seizure ...