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illustration of electrically active brain cells and neurons

NEUROSCIENCE

A Picture-Perfect Look at How Electrical Activity Travels through the Brain

October 10, 2019

Patriots player Rob 'Gronk' Gronkowski gets tackled during a game against the Seattle Seahawks.

CTE

CTE Risk More Than Doubles after Just Three Years of Playing Football

October 7, 2019

Wille and Sandra Reyes

Gulf War Illness

BU Researcher Makes Debut on Netflix’s New Show

September 23, 2019

Mosquito-borne illness

Here’s Everything We Know about the Lethal Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus

September 3, 2019

DEMENTIA IN CTE

Five New Answers about the Link between Football, CTE, and Dementia

August 5, 2019

US midfielder Michelle Akers and Brazil's Grazielle lie injured after going up for a header at the Women's World Cup semi-final match between the US and Brazil 04 July, 1999.

CTE

How Does CTE Impact Women? Former Soccer Stars Join the First All-Female CTE Study at BU

July 3, 2019

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

Composite image of a soundwave presented as a timeline with images of pioneering neuroscientist Rahul Desikan from the time he was a baby to current day.

Research

Rahul Desikan’s Story of Love, Science, and Facing Down Death

November 8, 2018

Ann McKee, director of BU’s CTE Center

Science & Technology

Ann McKee Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

October 15, 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

BU Researchers Find Gene Associated with Binge Eating in Mice