How a drug used to treat Parkinson's disease might affect the brain

Over the past decades, some lawyers have started using brain imaging scans as evidence during criminal trials, to provide a possible explanation for the criminal behavior of defendants. This was justified by recent neuroscientific studies, which found that some people who commit crimes present differences in specific parts of the brain. Yet a key question remains: are these brain changes causal, compensatory or incidental to the behavior?

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Five people who are incarcerated at a New Mexico county detention facility have measles, the state health department said Thursday.

Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB from traditional tests by eliminating the immune cells relied upon to sound the alarm.

The first time Barney Casserly used ketamine at a UK music festival he thought he had found "nirvana". Five years later he died in agony, leaving behind devastated parents and friends.

Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket.

When people are stressed, they make riskier decisions.

People in states that have banned abortion were more than twice as likely to receive them later in pregnancy, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco.

Imagine a drug that halts cancer without side effects or risks. That future may be a bit nearer thanks to recent research led by Raj Kumar, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences at Touro College of Pharmacy.

Researchers are one step closer to developing a simple, at-home test to prevent cervical cancer or treat it early, shows a study from University of Florida Health Cancer Center and Purdue University researchers.

Scientists at The University of Texas at Arlington have identified a new enzyme that can be "turned off" to help the body maintain healthy cholesterol levels—a significant development that could lead to new treatments for diseases that affect millions of Americans.

A drug commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes may reduce excess fluid in the brains of patients with hydrocephalus, which could help treat the disease less invasively than current treatments, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

The Trump administration's new vaccine advisers on Thursday endorsed this fall's flu vaccinations for just about every American but threw in a twist: Only use certain shots free of an ingredient antivaccine groups have falsely tied to autism.

The Trump administration's new vaccine advisers on Thursday endorsed this fall's flu vaccinations for just about every American—but only if they use certain shots free of an ingredient antivaccine groups have falsely tied to autism.

A new article published in Nature offers a promising path toward a shorter, more effective treatment for tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial disease that affects millions worldwide.

Moyamoya disease—a rare, progressive condition that narrows the brain's blood vessels—leads to an increased risk of stroke and other neurological conditions. Doctors treating children with moyamoya often face difficult decisions about treatment, notably deciding whether to perform revascularization, a surgery to bypass the narrowed blood vessels and restore blood flow.

Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have discovered how loss of a gene strongly associated with autism and macrocephaly (large head size) rewires circuits and alters behavior.

A new cancer drug candidate has demonstrated the ability to block tumor growth without triggering a common and debilitating side effect.