New research from Northeastern professor of psychology Iris Berent and her colleagues indicates that language and motor systems are intricately...

For the first time, scientists have revealed a mechanism underlying the cellular degeneration of upper motor neurons, a small group...

"Can he hear me?" family members are desperate to know when a loved one with a traumatic brain injury is...

No methods currently exist for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, which affects one out of nine people over the...

Music training has well-known benefits for the developing brain, especially for at-risk children. But youngsters who sit passively in a...

Speaking more than one language is good for the brain, according to new research that indicates bilingual speakers process information...

Why do we remember some things and not others? In a unique imaging study, two Northwestern University researchers have discovered...

A nano-sized discovery by Northwestern Medicine® scientists helps explain how bipolar disorder affects the brain and could one day lead...

Do we think of nature as something that we enjoy when we visit a national park and something we need...

A new Northwestern University study provides the first direct evidence that a community music program for at-risk youth has a...

Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of electrical current using magnetic pulses, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation,...

A five-year old's brain is an energy monster. It uses twice as much glucose (the energy that fuels the brain)...

Depression is known to be a common symptom of Parkinson’s disease, but remains untreated for many patients, according to a...

Office workers with more light exposure at the office had longer sleep duration, better sleep quality, more physical activity and...

Why does a relentless stream of subjective experiences normally fill your mind? Maybe that's just one of those mysteries that...