Neuroscience

Cambridge researchers have shown that members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb – a controllable...

More than 20,000 volunteers have been recruited to a resource aimed at speeding up the development of much-needed dementia drugs. The cohort will...

Researchers have developed tiny, flexible devices that can wrap around individual nerve fibres without damaging them.

Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments.

Autistic people have higher rates of chronic physical health conditions across the whole body and are more likely to have complex health needs...

Researchers have developed a method to identify new targets for human disease, including neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

The largest ever study of the genetics of the brain – encompassing some 36,000 brain scans – has identified more than 4,000 genetic variants linked...

Findings may demonstrate a brain and behavioural basis for how nicotine addiction is initiated and then takes hold in early life, say scientists.