Boston University

Neurology

Graphic symbolizing neurotrauma showing the silhouette of a human head with the top blowing off in layers.

Accolades

BU Researchers Awarded Massachusetts Life Sciences Capital Grant

April 29, 2019

These images show areas of the brain where an experimental brain scan detected higher abnormal tau protein in a group of former NFL football players than compared to a group of a control subjects. The former football players in the study have self reported cognitive, mood and behavior symptoms that are thought to be associated with CTE. Courtesy of the New England Journal of Medicine

Neurology

Toward Diagnosing CTE in Living People

April 11, 2019

Neuroscience

As Memories Fade, Can We Supercharge Them Back to Life?

April 9, 2019

A female asian child enters an MRI machine.

Infectious Diseases

Mysterious Illness AFM Has Paralyzed More Than 100 Children

December 5, 2018

Amyloid plaques

Alzheimer’s Disease

New Alzheimer’s Drug Has MED Prof Cautiously Optimistic

July 30, 2018

kids playing tackle football

CTE

MED Researchers: Youth Football Linked to Earlier Brain Problems

April 30, 2018

Helen Barbas at her work station

Neurology

New Insights on “Sadness Center” of Primate Brain

January 22, 2018

CTE in teenage brains

CTE

BU-Led Study: CTE May Occur without Concussions

January 18, 2018

Ann McKee and Jonathan Cherry, researchers at the Boston Universtiy

CTE

BU Researchers ID Possible Biomarker for Diagnosing CTE during Life

September 26, 2017

Man in bed with insomnia experiencing a lack of REM sleep

Medicine

Lack of REM Sleep May Increase Dementia Risk

August 23, 2017

People over 65 who sleep longer than nine hours each night may be showing early signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, according to research by Sudha Seshadri, a MED professor of neurology.

Neurology

MED Researchers: Too Much Sleep Could Signal Dementia

May 8, 2017

Researchers identified a gene in mice associated with binge eating, and also found evidence that binge eating may alter myelin production brain.

Genetics

BU Researchers Find Gene Associated with Binge Eating in Mice

May 2, 2017

Litre Bottles of Soda

Neurology

Is Soda Bad for Your Brain? (And Is Diet Soda Worse?)

April 21, 2017

Claudia Satizabal will study the link between midlife obesity and Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s Disease

Does Midlife Obesity Increase Odds of Alzheimer’s Disease?

April 6, 2017

Mckee

CTE

Brain Trauma and CTE

February 3, 2017

Image of black dots of a dalmation

Neuroscience

The Dyslexia Paradox

January 24, 2017

MRI images of human brain

Cardiovascular Disease

Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain?

August 11, 2016

Denston Carey, Jr., an arts and sciences major at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, works with his grad student mentor, Teresa Guillamon-Vivancos, ,as part of the STaRS program at Boston University

Biology

STaRS: Getting an Early Start on Life in the Lab

August 11, 2016

A spider-shaped pericyte, seen here in light blue, encircles a capillary, helping maintain the blood-brain barrier

Neurology

Genetic Risk for Stroke

June 30, 2016

Ben Wolozin, professor of pharmacology and neurology at Boston University School of Medicine

Alzheimer’s Disease

Toxic Tau

June 7, 2016

Toxic Tau