Our grey matter has always been a mystery, even to neurologists, but Professor Masud Husain says life-changing advances may ...

The neurological condition can cause people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to have voices that break and can sound "strangled." ...

The dorsal striatum and cortical inputs to this structure have emerged as key players in the wider basal ganglia circuitry encoding behavioral ... of these neural circuits can result in ...

George is now in recovery after a decade of addiction to ketamine. "I used to go to festivals and it was a cheap drug to get," he said. " I started using it socially but then I started using it ...

One or two doses of psilocybin, a compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, may improve the mental health of cancer patients when accompanied by psychotherapy, a new report suggests. A second new ...

Indeed, growing older can impact the very process by which healthy new blood vessels are made, resulting in aberrant angiogenesis—an abnormal and disordered formation of new vasculature.

So a habit is not an obsessive compulsive disorder, but obsessive compulsive disorders do ... merge into the whole addiction story, which also happens in the basal ganglia, how much have you ...

The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) developed guidelines for opioid and stimulant use disorders, but comprehensive guidelines for cannabis use disorder are unavailable. Cannabis ...

The release of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, as a result of walking (or any form of exercise), also helps to protect neurons and leads to neuronal growth “in part of the basal ganglia ...