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Disrupted connections between memory and appetite regulating brain circuits are directly proportional to BMI, notably in patients who suffer from disordered or overeating that can lead to obesity, such as binge eating disorder BED.

Neuroscientists at Penn Medicine find that key neurons in the front of the brain act as “traffic control” to manage our attention to visual stimuli, and help us focus despite distractions.

A gene encoding a protein linked to tau production was found to suppress deterioration in small animal models of neurodegenerative diseases similar to Alzheimer’s disease, while improving cognitive and motor abilities.

Those diagnosed with depression—including young and middle-aged adults—were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with dementia later in life, as compared to those without depression.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will present data on the latest research across the full spectrum of Neurology at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting.

The neural circuits that form habits in the brain are altered in patients with binge eating disorder (BED), compared to those of patients without such disorders, according to new research led by the Perelman School of Medicine.

A technique that identifies the build-up of abnormal protein deposits linked to Parkinson’s disease in cerebrospinal fluid can accurately detect patients with the disease.

Brain development follows a newly identified, non-uniform developmental sequence rendering youth to environmental impacts through adolescence.

Adults who suffered any head injury during a 30-year study period had two times the rate of mortality than those who did not have any head injury, and mortality rates among those with moderate or severe head injuries were nearly three times higher.

Penn led the largest-to-date global effort to identify and predict GBM tumor boundaries without compromising patient privacy.