In a new paper with implications for preventing Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, Keith Hengen, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St.

A hidden four-layer structure in the brain’s key memory hub has been revealed, reshaping how scientists understand learning ...

Individuals with coronary artery disease (CAD)—a constricting or blocking of blood vessels feeding the heart—face increased ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

We often think of aging as a gradual, consistent process affecting our bodies, and the brain is no exception. However, emerging research is painting a more nuanced picture of how our brains change ...

Regular creative activity is linked to a younger-looking brain and slower brain aging, according to a large international brain-imaging analysis.

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...

THERE are few things more frustrating than trying to recall a fact or memory and finding it has gone missing. You might ask yourself whether it is the start of mental decline or the onset of a ...

THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Sleep apnea is known to wreak havoc with the body, contributing to heart problems, diabetes and liver disease. The sleep disorder also appears to have ...

When the brain has trouble filtering incoming information and predicting what's likely to happen, psychosis can result, research shows. Inside the brains of people with psychosis, two key systems are ...