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A new review of neurological symptoms of COVID-19 patients in current scientific literature reveals the disease poses a global threat to the entire nervous system, reports a new study.

A high-resolution structure of an activated dopamine receptor in its natural cell membrane environment, developed by researchers, could open up a new dimension in drug discovery for Parkinson’s disease.

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have shown for the first time, the mental health significance of hallucinations in people with a history of seizures.

By sedating sheep with ketamine, researchers have identified two brain phenomena that may explain some of the side-effects of the drug.

Neuroscientists have discovered a population of neurons that controls hibernation-like behavior in mice, revealing a potential route to suspended animation.

Researchers have discovered that the brain strives to gain as much information as possible whilst dedicating as little of its cognitive capacity as possible to the processing.

Astrocytes, a type of brain cell, can harbor HIV and then spread the virus to immune cells that traffic out of the brain and into other organs, according to new research.

A candidate treatment that utilizes cow antibodies to combat COVID-19 may be able to produce four times the level of neutralizing antibodies as seen in conventional human convalescent plasma serum, the compound's developer has announced.

According to a new study, the main source of errors in determining spatial position and apparently the cause of age-related orientation problems is a "noisy" and therefore imprecise perception of the speed at which one is moving.

In a new study involving participants from the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study, researchers investigated the link between hormone therapies and structural changes in the brain.