Stories about: Cortex

There is bad news and good news for the owners of ageing human brains.

Howard Florey researchers say mental and physical stimulation delays onset of dementia in Huntington's mice.

Mum's brain metabolism the word on Alzheimer's, new study shows.

US researchers have engineered mice with an obsessive compulsive-like syndrome and linked the disorder to protein in the brain.

Florey research into schizophrenia mouse model finds exercise rescues abnormal chemical transmitter pathway.

New evidence supports theory that a breakdown in frontal temporal connectivity underlies schizophrenia.

More neural connections may explain synesthesia

American scientists have reported that embryonic stem cells implanted into mouse brains appear to develop into fully differentiated granule neurons.

Scientists at the University of Queensland have linked maternal vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy to abnormal foetal brain development and an increased the risk of behavioural problems, schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis (MS) later in life.

Researchers at the University of Queensland have discovered fundamental differences in patterns of gene expression in alcoholic versus normal brains.