When approached for a quote about Jeffrey D Rothstein, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and Director of the Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore MD, USA), his ...

WHO has recognised mental health and, more recently, brain health as public health priorities.1 This momentum was further advanced at the National, Regional and International Plans for Brain and ...

More than 82 million people could be living with dementia by 2030,1 the majority in low-income and middle-income countries where access to specialist care and diagnostic tests is highly variable.

Therapeutic advances have altered the neurodegenerative trajectory and improved clinical outcomes for individuals with spinal muscular atrophy. Current therapies increase concentrations of survival ...

Consciousness has many aspects, from wakefulness to complex cognitive feats, but sentience—ie, the capacity for feeling—is paradoxically simpler yet the most difficult aspect of consciousness to ...

Down syndrome is the most common cause of genetically determined Alzheimer's disease. Individuals with trisomy 21 carry an extra copy of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene and overproduce ...

Medicine has traditionally relied on a pathophysiology-to-phenotype paradigm, whereby specific pathological processes are linked to signs and symptoms. This paradigm maintains that complex systems are ...

Robert Eggers’ meticulous gothic interpretation of Nosferatu is a remake of the 1922 film directed by F W Murnau and based on ...

An estimated 3·4 billion people worldwide live with a neurological disease or the consequences of acquired brain injuries, including stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury.

An Editorial in The Lancet Neurology emphasised that rigorous prospective studies are essential to develop safe and ethical artificial intelligence (AI) tools for brain health.1 Yet, what usually ...

An Editorial in The Lancet Neurology1 highlights the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in neurology, from stroke and epilepsy to dementia. However, despite clear ...

Joël Le Scouarnec sexually assaulted hundreds of patients in his care. His victims are now calling for institutional changes in the wake of his conviction. Marianne Guenot reports.