Do you remember Dr. Lewis Thomas, the renowned physician-writer? Back in the 1970s, Dr. Thomas wrote an elegant book of essays, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, in which he poetically ...

Neurologists are exploring medications that would help the brain recover after a stroke or traumatic injury. Credit...Fabio-Consoli Supported by By Rachel E. Gross The first thing Debra McVean did ...

The term “nervous breakdown” is no longer used—“mental-health crisis” is the nomenclature du jour—but I think I had one two years ago. My journey into the psychological night was precipitated by a ...

What if healing the brain after traumatic injury starts in the gut? “We found that antibiotic treatment following TBI can reduce harmful gut bacteria, decrease lesion size and limit cell death,” said ...

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation — two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. When the injury is to the brain, the balance is that ...

In a new study published in Communications Biology, Houston Methodist researchers led by Sonia Villapol, Ph.D., found that short-term antibiotic treatment significantly reduced neuroinflammation and ...

Imagine if a simple vitamin could help your brain repair itself. Recent research suggests it might be possible. Scientists from Japan’s Shibaura Institute of Technology have developed enhanced vitamin ...

Almost instantly, the words and music shifted something in me. Just before, I was feeling a sense of melancholy, but as the ...

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation—two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...