For decades, treating major depression has involved a frustrating cycle of trial and error, with patients cycling through ...

President Donald Trump demanded doctors scan his brain in the aftermath of his assassination attempt after believing it functioned similarly to an IQ test. Moments after being rushed to hospital ...

Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test can detect small amounts of the clumping-prone tau protein and its misfolded pathological forms ...

Experts continue to discuss whether knowing your Alzheimer's risk is worthwhile or not. A new study found that a certain type of brain scan can detect people who have early brain changes linked to ...

A blood sample analysis can detect markers of this disease at early stages, providing a cheaper and less invasive option for diagnosis. In clinical trials, the Lumipulse blood test was highly accurate ...

David joined Raw Story in 2023 after nearly a decade of writing about the legal industry for Bloomberg Law. He is also a co-founder and a commissioning editor at Hypatia Press, a publisher that ...

It's widely recognized that psychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety disorders are based in the brain. Scientists have even started to discover which brain areas are involved in different ...

For decades, Americans have been told a simple story about addiction: taking drugs damages the brain—and the earlier in life children start using substances, the more likely they are to progress ...