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Sizable number of MS patients appear to exhibit taste deficits.

Team suggests a routine blood test can reveal Alzheimer's risk and IQ measurements.

How aging rewires our brain.

A team of investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) has launched a study of individuals at risk for multiple sclerosis (MS).

Skeleton that protects brain cells' control center is found to be damaged.

A new study by Neil Harrison and colleagues published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that a brain reward center, the striatum, may be directly affected by inflammation and that striatal change is related to the emergence of illness behaviors.

Doctors who order several days of rest after a person suffers a concussion are giving sound advice, say researchers, and new data from animal models explains why.

A new study indicates that children with Down syndrome who have motor speech deficits have been inadequately diagnosed, which could have a major impact on the interventions used by speech pathologists when treating patients.

There may be a genetic connection between some mental health disorders and type 2 diabetes. In a new study that appears in The FASEB Journal, scientists show that a gene called "DISC1," which is believed to play a role in mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and some forms of depression, influences the function of pancreatic beta cells which produce insulin to maintain normal blood glucose levels.

A group of neurobiologists have proven experimentally that aggression has an influence on the production of new nerve cells in the brain.