Neuroscience

Researchers have identified a link which suggests that lithium could decrease the risk of developing dementia, which affects nearly one million...

Neurosurgery experts from Cambridge have led the largest ever study examining the surgical management of traumatic brain injuries, highlighting...

Long-term use of implantable electronic medical devices – such as pacemakers and cochlear implants – is hampered by the body’s reaction to foreign...

People with dementia struggle to adapt to changes in their environment because of damage to areas of the brain known as ‘multiple demand networks’...

For the first time, researchers have used human data to quantify the speed of different processes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease and found that it...

Cambridge researchers have developed ‘mini brains’ that allow them to study a fatal and untreatable neurological disorder causing paralysis and...

A new mechanism that stops the progression of Huntington’s disease in cells has been identified by scientists at the University of Cambridge and UCL...

Artificial intelligence could spot the early signs of dementia from a simple brain scan long before major symptoms appear – and in some cases before...