In their research efforts, scientists often require post-mortem brains. Unfortunately, organ donation programs receive very few of these specimens. “The availability of both pathological and ...

In the world of medical research, few journeys feel as personal and urgent as that of Dr. Alexander W. Charney. His career began with curiosity, but patient care reshaped it into a mission. A recent ...

Houston institutions recently announced Project Metis, an ambitious effort to position the region as a leader in brain health ...

Since the publication of the Human Genome Project, researchers have expanded the field of genomics to probe deeper into the underpinnings of human biology and disease, including studies of the body’s ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...