Cancer tumors hijack the vagus nerve to communicate with the brain, triggering a hormonal response that suppresses the immune system.

Pasca Lab specializes in growing three-dimensional organoid models from reprogrammed stem cells, which capture molecular changes during fetal brain-like development. Because the human brain cannot be ...

Exercise may sharpen the mind by repairing the brain’s protective shield. Researchers found that physical activity prompts the liver to release an enzyme that removes a harmful protein causing the ...

Eating unhealthy foods early in life leaves lasting brain and feeding changes, but gut bacteria can help restore healthy ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a potent immunotherapy approach for treating meningiomas, the most common ...

Early-life junk food permanently alters the brain's appetite center, but gut microbiome interventions can restore healthy feeding behavior.

The fatigue and lack of motivation that many cancer patients experience near the end of life have been seen as the unavoidable consequences of their declining physical health and extreme weight loss.

A patient’s expectation of a drug’s effect influences the drug’s efficacy and the pain-related brain pathways that are activated during treatment, according to a study published in Science ...

A growing body of laboratory research suggests that caffeine, the most consumed psychostimulant in the world, may reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression by suppressing inflammatory signaling inside ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early ...

Up to 48 hours before a migraine, this region becomes overactive, disrupting functions it normally regulates like sleep and ...