Childhood abuse, one of the most commonly reported traumatic exposures in the United States, does not merely leave psychological scars. A growing body of postmortem brain studies and clinical ...

Corporal punishment is still on the books in Missouri and used in some schools. The practice is from an earlier era, rooted ...

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte ...

A UCSF team finds a liver protein, released with exercise, that improves memory in aging and Alzheimer’s disease by repairing ...

Complex 3D structures of cells called organoids could be used to test treatments for spinal-cord damage that can lead to ...

Armenia's integration of displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) serves as a contemporary case study of ...

2-year-old’s recovery from severed spinal cord shows how surgery can help patients regain movement, even after paralysis ...