People with a stable mood and better capacity to handle stressful situations without anxiety have a reduced risk of developing dementia, according to a study published this week in the journal Neurology.
Your phone may be keeping you awake - and not because it's ringing.
Some doctors have long suspected that if the plaque that builds up in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease could be removed, they could be saved. But a new vaccine that did just that suggests the theory is wrong
A new study suggests that 40% of people are never told their spouse has incurable cancer, or don't find out until just before their death
Research shows that gay men's brains resemble those of straight women
Three prizes worth $1 million apiece were awarded Wednesday to seven
scientists for their discoveries in neuroscience, astrophysics and the
study of vanishingly small structures
For the first time, scientists have created real out-of-body experiences in the lab. No drugs required.
U.S scientists Richard Axel and Linda Buck have won the 2004 Nobel prize for medicine for work explaining how the human sense of smell works.
Anders Ahlbom is hardly a revolutionary. Sitting in his tidy, light-filled office at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute medical school, the researcher whose results are frightening a lot of people se...