The Latest Breaking News from Brain

Do you feel restless? Maybe you can’t focus on a book for more than two minutes. You constantly reach for your phone. Or perhaps you need a snack, a drink, or a new purchase to feel… anything. You might be stuck in a dopamine loop. Consequently, the “dopamine detox” trend…

A stroke is a medical emergency that happens when something prevents the brain from getting enough blood flow. Stroke is now one of the leading causes of death and disability in Africa. Current estimates indicate rates of incidence (new cases) as high as 316 per 100,000 people annually and prevalence…

For generations, medicine treated the heart and brain as separate domains. However, a new study suggests the two are more closely connected than we thought, especially as we age.

Delivering a connection-building protein to star-shaped cells in the brain could reverse changes to neural circuits seen in Down syndrome, according to new research my colleagues and I published in the journal Cell Reports.