Compared to the near total permanent vision loss associated with cortical blindness in adults, which is often due to strokes, children with CVI usually retain some functional vision that may improve ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Scientists have known for decades that the classic symptoms of schizophrenia, such as jumping to conclusions or difficulty adjusting to new information, can be attributed to poor communication between ...

Synaptic plasticity - the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning - is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington's disease, with a direct ...

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...