A new study on the aging brain has identified a single protein that may drive cognitive decline and suggests the damage could ...

Sure, playing video game is fun. But the ability of tiny brain organoids to pick up a skill could provide insight into how ...

Scientists have uncovered a powerful new clue in the mystery of brain aging: a single protein called FTL1. In aging mice, higher levels of this protein weakened connections between brain cells and led ...

If you develop Alzheimer's disease, you not only lose your sense of time, but you also lose your sense of place. Could time ...

The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much ...

Astrocytes, once thought to be mere brain “support cells,” are now revealed to be key players in fear memory. Researchers found they actively help form, recall, and weaken fear responses by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in whom ...

Japanese scientists have found that age—related decline in long-term memory is not caused by its disappearance, but by ...

For the millions of people who carry the gene APOE4, the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, their ...

Using an experimental drug called FP802, researchers blocked the protein pair from binding and saw effects of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A donated superager brain. (Shane Collins, Northwestern University) Not only do our brains appear to generate new neurons into ...

A new study suggests that a hormone therapy harvested from human corpses may be linked to a rare, controversial form of ...