Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Alzheimer’s Association Florida Gulf Coast Chapter has announced $150,000 in funding for the Florida Autopsied Multi-Ethnic ...

A new National Sports Brain Bank at the University of Pittsburgh will study the effects of contact sports on brain injury and disease. The University of Pittsburgh is creating a National Sports Brain ...

A new virtual brain bank spanning five Chicago academic medical centers and led by University of Illinois Chicago will create a powerful new resource for clinical care and research on epilepsy, brain ...

On a cutting surface inside a Scaife Hall laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Julia Kofler examines a brain, pointing out its weight, tiny specks of fatty plaque and other features visible ...

A new study by researchers at the Department of Molecular Medicine at SDU sheds light on one of the most severe consequences of stroke: damage to the brain's "cables"-the so-called nerve fibers-which ...

Following an injury, the brain tries to repair the damaged nerve fibers . Unfortunately, the repair process often succeeds only partially, meaning many patients experience lasting damage to their ...

A new brain bank is accepting future donations from living athletes, in an effort to perform long-term research into the effects of sports-related concussion. The National Sports Brain Bank (NSBB) at ...

A Massachusetts brain bank that supplies tissue for research was spared potentially devastating cuts to federal funding, but its new contract still could hamper efforts to understand and treat some of ...

THE HUMAN BRAIN. IT’S CALLED THE NATIONAL SPORTS BRAIN BANK AND UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH. RESEARCHERS ARE TAKING THE LEAD. FORMER STEELERS JEROME BETTIS AND MERRILL HODGE PLEDGED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ...

A new study by researchers at the Department of Molecular Medicine at SDU sheds light on one of the most severe consequences of stroke: damage to the brain's "cables"—the so-called nerve fibers—which ...