A first-in-human study suggests that tirzepatide modulates abnormal activity in the brain’s nucleus accumbens, reducing food ...

Popular drugs for diabetes and weight loss, like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, can have profound impacts on the body, but what about the brain? These medicines are thought to broadly suppress ...

A rare intracranial brain-recording study revealed that tirzepatide, a GLP-1 and GIP receptor agonist, temporarily silences craving-related neural activity in a key reward circuit of the brain.

It is estimated that one-third of the 50 million people worldwide with epilepsy are resistant to anti-seizure medications. These patients, having drug-resistant epilepsy, have limited treatment ...

A Penn case study finds that a brain-computer interface shows the medication produces only short-term or incomplete effects on related brain activity in a patient with obesity, highlighting the need ...

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is an invasive treatment. Pairs of electrodes are surgically implanted in the brain and connected to a pulse generator placed under the skin on the chest. DBS-nbM delivers ...

A new clinical trial shows that deep brain stimulation (DBS) improved symptoms in half of adults with treatment-resistant ...

Learn how your body uses an immune-to-brain communication line to nudge you away from others when you’re getting sick.

Long-term calorie restriction reshapes the aging brain at the cellular level, maintaining healthier pathways that make it ...

Deep brain stimulation—implants in the brain that act as a kind of "pacemaker"—has led to clinical improvements in half of ...