The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. But last year about half of the deceased ...

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

People following the sodium- and sugar‑limiting DASH diet performed better on cognitive tests than those who didn’t, a new ...

Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons.

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The brain’s wiring forms a unique fingerprint that reveals how we think, remember, and make decisions. A new study offers the ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, working with collaborators at Imperial College London and partners in Europe and the United States, have uncovered new insights into how an additional copy of ...

On the computer screens, the mouse brain is shown from several angles. Then you click, and a small area of the brain is ...

Superagers, 80 and 90-year-olds with extraordinary cognitive function, have been found to have a unique genetic profile that ...

Expert birdwatchers have changes in their brain structure compared with novices, which probably help them better identify birds and may even protect against age-related cognitive decline ...

With a four-year, $2.7M NIH grant, Hopkins researchers are developing an AI-powered imaging system that can capture brain activity 20 to 50 times faster than current tools ...