For decades, Americans have been told a simple story about addiction: taking drugs damages the brain—and the earlier in life children start using substances, the more likely they are to progress ...

LONDON (AP) -- Children who get several CT scans have a slightly higher chance of brain cancer and leukemia in later life, though the risk is still small and probably outweighed by the need to get the ...

A newly discovered biological signal in the blood could help health care teams and researchers better understand how children respond to brain injuries at the cellular level, according to our research ...

Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions.

Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...

Seizures in children are usually linked straight away to fever, family history or epilepsy, but doctors still keep running ...