Neuroscience

A new app relies on smartphone cameras and algorithms to check for signs of neurodivergence in children.

Epilepsy onset and seizure severity are linked to variants in the SCN2A gene, potentially leading to improved diagnostics and treatments.

Stimulating dopamine neurons in adolescent mice rescued cognitive deficits associated with future development of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Dopamine stimulators may lessen the systemic side effects — often weight gain and diabetes — of dopamine-blocking antipsychotics.

No pharmaceutical treatments exist for addictions to drugs like cocaine or cannabis. Now, scientists are engineering gene therapies, immunotherapies, and more.

Scientists recovered movement in mouse models of spinal cord injury.

Scientists imaged new communication pathways between the skull and the brain and uncovered immune responses exclusive to the skull.

A new type of drug for schizophrenia could finally be approved in September. Others may not be far behind.

Researchers discovered an immunological connection between the eye and the brain that could lead to new therapeutics for central nervous system diseases.