Last week, the White House Office of Management and Budget told federal agencies to consider layoffs, or reductions-in-force, if the government shuts down — an unusual move since government workers ...

Spinning stories out of nothing is a deeply human impulse. As a neurologist, I see my patients do it all the time.

Vaccines are usually administered with a needle poke into the arm. But what if instead of a poke, you could get vaccinated with a huff and a puff?

Key PointsNasal vaccines trigger mucosal immune responses, in addition to systemic responses elicited by traditional vaccines, providing more ...

At the heart of wellness is consistent, restful, healthy sleep. And there's a lot more to it than just letting your head hit the pillow at night. We spend a third of our lives sleeping, so it goes ...

Dogs do it, cats do it, deer do it – in fact, many species of mammals can swivel their ears to direct their hearing. Humans lost this ability about 25 million years ago, but according to a new study, ...

Erythropoietin (EPO) is primarily known to many as a hormone for blood formation. However, it has been known for some years that EPO also plays an important role in the brain—specifically where ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons has revealed a surprising number of differences, suggesting that the structur ...

A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of cells are blurrier than researchers once thought.

Brain health is moving to the center of the healthcare conversation. As Dr. Charles Hennekens wrote in The American Journal of Medicine, “While deaths from cardiovascular disease have declined since ...