Some experts want to apply recent neuroscience research to the decision making that could lead to doomsday. By Sarah Scoles Nuclear war has returned to the realm of dinner table conversation, weighing ...

In 1953, the man known during his lifetime only as H.M. underwent neurosurgery to cure his severe epilepsy. The operation inadvertently destroyed most of his hippocampus, a brain structure nobody ...

In the decades since their invention, nuclear weapons have become much more lethal. Blasts once measured in kilotons are now measured in megatons, and warheads once dropped by slow-flying bombers are ...

Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co., Ltd. Brain cancer is one of the most aggressive and life-threatening diseases, with glioblastoma (GBM) being the most common and deadliest type. Patients ...

Nearly 90 years after Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini introduced electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), brain stimulation therapies such as ECT and Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) are common ...

Several types of cancer are believed to be linked to alterations of macromolecular structures known as nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). These structures are embedded in the nuclear envelope, a membrane ...