Around a decade ago, Small watched his father’s early-onset dementia worsen as his synaptic connections were lost. Small ...

Researchers at Göttingen Campus, Germany, have succeeded for the first time in examining the tiny synapses in the inner ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical procedure that entails the delivery of high-frequency electrical impulses to specific regions of the brain, via surgically implanted electrodes. While it ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest types of tumors. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has discovered that pancreatic tumors exploit the body’s nervous system by forming ...

About a third of adults do not get enough sleep in the UK and while meditation or sleeping pills do help insomniacs nod off - magnesium could also help problem sleepers. Dubbed the mineral of the ...

When humans and other animals are in a calm state, they tend to breathe slower, and their heartbeat also slows down. Contrarily, when they are exercising or under psychological stress, both their ...