NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children born with birth defects or to mothers with a history of multiple stillbirths may have a higher-than-normal risk of brain cancer, a new study suggests. The risks ...

NEW YORK (AP) – A lab study has found that Zika can infect embryonic cells that help form the brain, adding to evidence that the virus causes a serious birth defect. The mosquito-borne virus is ...

LONDON (Reuters) - More than 135 brain diseases including autism, chronic pain, schizophrenia and dementia are linked to defects in proteins in the junctions between nerve cells, scientists have found ...

A direct causal link between Zika virus infection in pregnant women and the brain damaging birth defect has been registered by a study. But while preliminary findings from the first 32 cases involved ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers develop the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-human organoids-single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing (CHOOSE) ...

There are genetic factors that are known to contribute to some cases of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but understanding how those mutations can lead to ASD is very challenging. Scientists have ...

After months of hesitation, U.S. health officials now say that the Zika virus is indeed the cause of severe brain damage in the infants of some women who were infected with the virus during pregnancy.

Among babies with severe congenital heart disease (CHD), neurological abnormalities tended to cluster in those who had been exposed to some placental pathology while still in the womb, a single-center ...

As people get older, they aspire to live healthy lives as free as possible from the natural decline of cognitive abilities that occurs with aging. At Baylor College of Medicine, researchers have been ...

CHAPEL HILL – For decades, scientists have thought the faulty neural wiring that predisposes individuals to behavioral disorders like autism and psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia must occur ...