Imagine being able to compose an email or steer a wheelchair directly with your thoughts. For millions of people living with ...

Abstract: Drug delivery to the brain across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been a challenge for drugs unable to passively diffuse through it. Various parameters of the drugs contribute to the ...

When biomedical researchers need to test their latest ideas, they often turn to engineered human tissue that mimics the ...

A team of scientists at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) has published new evidence suggesting that the brain's protective shield - known as the blood-brain barrier (BBB) - ...

A team of scientists at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) has published new evidence suggesting that the ...

Abstract: Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is an incredibly aggressive and highly deadly form of brain cancer, with an average survival rate of only 14 months. Many forms of current treatment, such as ...

Habits are behaviors that have been automated, so you barely need to think about them. When it comes to starting a new habit, the prefrontal cortex is the head of the operation. The PFC is the folded ...

Ricky Gervais is leading a crowd of feral felines in a new adult animated series for Netflix. Gervais is behind Netflix’s Alley Cats, which stars a wealth of top British comics including Diane Morgan, ...

Warning: The audio includes graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. Audio has surfaced of a phone call between Charlotte train stabbing suspect Decarlos Brown and his sister, ...

Metformin, long trusted for diabetes, turns out to work in the brain too. By shutting down Rap1 in the hypothalamus, the drug lowers blood sugar more effectively than previously understood, opening ...