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

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

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

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

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

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

In an era of overt sexism in the sciences, she made two major discoveries, including identifying a chemical signal in 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 ...

When removing cancerous tissue in the brain, neurosurgeons often use "awake brain mapping" to minimize the risk of causing unintended disruptions to a patient's quality of life while removing as much ...