Track-It Epilepsy

Advances in genetics and neuroscience are revolutionizing our understanding of violent behavior—as well as ideas about how to prevent and punish crime, writes Adrian Raine.

Depersonalisation disorder – in which your memories feel alien and your world unreal – is less rare than you might think. We speak to someone who has it    

Women who take the epilepsy drug valproate during pregnancy are three times more likely to have a child with an autism spectrum disorder, suggests new research based on close to 700,000 babies born in Denmark.Source: Reuters Health Related...

Get your brain ready for a game show that requires no knowledge of trivia or prices -- just curiosity.

For the first time, human embryonic stem cells have been transformed into nerve cells that helped mice regain the ability to learn and remember.

The future of artificial limbs is one where they act just like parts of the human body and can be moved by our brains. Researchers have shown how brain-computer interfaces could allow the disabled to move objects using nothing more than...

President Obama made history this week by announcing an ambitious plan to explore medicine's most important and challenging frontiers: the workings of the human brain. He plans to ask Congress for $100 million[1] in 2014 for the BRAIN Initiative,...

Researchers have identified a gene behind an epilepsy syndrome, which could also play an important role in other idiopathic (genetically caused) epilepsies. With the so-called "next generation sequencing", with which genetic changes can be...

With Barack Obama already four months into his second term, and with little more than two years remaining before lame duck status limits his effectiveness, it's not too early to ponder how history will judge his presidency. What will future...

Telling neuroscientists to stop criticizing a big government research project is not how science should be done