Boston University

Neurology & Neuroscience

Image: Vector illustration showing Long-term effects of covid-19 or post covid syndrome. Depression, dyspnea, arrhythmia, eczema, indigestion and others symptoms are shown with a person expressing/miming them in various ways in six different bubbles on a white background.

Long COVID

What We Know about Long COVID—and What We Don’t

April 24, 2023

Photo: Young American football player in the running back position and wearing a black and white uniform is shown breaking away from an attempted tackle from another young player wearing a blue and white uniform. A third young player is shown in the same blue and white uniform to the right running alongside them.

Football

New BU Study Finds Tackle Football at Young Age Raises Risk for Brain Decline Later

March 6, 2023

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, Bruce Willis attends the "Motherless Brooklyn" premiere during the 57th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, in New York. People in Mississippi’s capital city are being told to expect downtown street closures and explosions for the filming of an action movie that stars Willis. A bank heist movie called “A Day to Die” has been filming in Jackson in April 2021, with Willis shooting scenes in several places, including a street outside the Governor’s Mansion. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Dementia

What Now for Bruce Willis after Actor’s Recent Dementia Diagnosis?

February 17, 2023

Photo: Philadelphia Eagles' C.J. Gardner-Johnson catches a pass during practice at the NFL football team's training facility, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, in Philadelphia. A Black man wearing a dark green and white Eagles' football uniform and helmet catches a football in his hands.

CTE

BU Finds CTE in Nearly 92 Percent of Ex-NFL Players Studied

February 7, 2023

Collage: (From left to right, top down) Photo: Bruce Willis at a speaking engagement wearing a blue collared shirt with a white undershirt, Photo of BU Medical student, Molly Jia Yong Zhao gives a flu shot to a patient during a clinic on September 29, 2020, vector illustration of a brain pixelating and dissolving from left to right, and Photo of Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Science, Hagere Yilma, posing for a photo. A Black woman with shoulder-length black hair styled in a twist-out hairstyle wearing a black, tunic-style blouse stands in front of a brick wall and smiles to the camera.

2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories

December 13, 2022

Image: A Modern wire frame mesh design vector illustration of the year "2022". Numbers are depicted with glowing neon blue low polygonal digits on dark blue background. .

2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

Photo of Steve Ramirez, a CAS assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, smiling and posing with arms crossed in a white lab. He wears black glasses. and a dark grey collared shirt.

Accolades

BU Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez Given $1.15 Million Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award

October 20, 2022

Image Collage: From left to right, headshots of Hugo Javier Aparicio, Diana M. Ceballos, Catherine Espaillat, Raul Garcia, Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Daniel Jacobson López, and Maria C. Olivares.

Latinx Researchers

Seven BU Latinx Researchers Making a Difference

October 3, 2022

Image: Picture of a memory. Blue dots are positive memory cells, and the red dots are negative memory cells. Dots are shown in a pattern with veins. The memories shown here are located in the hippocampus of a mouse.

Memory Manipulation

Unlocking the Power of Our Emotional Memory

October 3, 2022

Photo of green and orange gliding tree frogs swarming on leaves against a black background.

Research in Photos

From Lovesick Frogs to Music-Making to Mouse Memories, Photo Contest Shows Stunning Breadth of BU Research

September 27, 2022

Photo of Cloudy blue skies reflecting in the windows at the BU Kilachand Center. A long figure walks by on the sidewalk.

Kilachand Fund

The Kilachand Fund’s Impact on Science’s Biggest Challenges

September 26, 2022

Photo of a series of black and grey brain scans.

Brain Health

New BU Center for Brain Recovery Aims to Advance Treatments for Stroke, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s

September 19, 2022

A vector illustration of a brain pixelating and dissolving from left to right

Alzheimer’s Disease

Could a Computer Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia?

July 7, 2022

A vector image of an older man experiencing dementia, with a caretaker by his side. The illustration is simple vector art with solid colors.

Diagnosing Dementia

Two Technologies That Can Make Diagnosing Dementia Easier for Doctors and Patients

June 24, 2022

Photo of a green and yellow helmet sitting on a green turf football field.

CTE in Sports

8 Major Findings and Headlines from BU CTE Researchers in the Past Year

May 24, 2022

Photo of Brenda Philips sitting on a wooden bench in a park and turned to look at the camera. A white woman with glasses wearing a blue blazer, red, green, and yellow blouse, and black pants, poses for the camera.

Mindfulness and Meditation

Can Meditation and Mindfulness Help Cancer Patients Thrive?

March 29, 2022

Photo of a young lighter skinned black woman lying on the couch and holding her head with her hand.

Long COVID

Researchers Race to Understand Long COVID in National Study

March 18, 2022

Photo of PhD student Ke Wu wearing a magnetic Metamaterial device. The hat is made of materials in red, yellow, and blue.

Metamaterials

This Bizarre Looking Helmet Can Create Better Brain Scans

February 10, 2022

Abstract illustration of circuit hubs in the brain. A series rainbow colored networks are seen on a black background.

Neuroscience

Why Do We All Feel Touch Differently?

January 6, 2022

photo of a blue-gloved hand holding a clear petri dish of yeasts. The white yeast lie in criss-crossed pattern and the hand adds a contrast to make it clearer to see them.

Innovation

Five Studies Pushing the Limits of Science

November 17, 2021

Five Studies Pushing the Limits of Science