People with type 2 diabetes who achieve optimal heart health by following the American Heart Association's 'Life's Essential 8' guidelines may have a lower risk of dementia.

In a world full of motivational quotes and “wholesome” hacks, it’s easy to forget that your brain needs more than inspiration ...

While zoning out occasionally happened after a full night's slumber, it was much more common after the participants had ...

A collaborative team led by psychiatrist Theodore D. Satterthwaite and postdoctoral fellow Golia Shafiei of the University of Pennsylvania has developed Reproducible Brain Charts, a large-scale, open ...

If future tests confirm safety and function, they could complement, not replace ... The safer path focuses on established ...

This election, voters will decide on Proposition 14, which would establish the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

We spend about one-third of our lives asleep, and yet, the secret of how our brain falls asleep remains one of the greatest mysteries of neuroscience ...

An MIT study reveals what happens in the brain as lapses of attention occur following sleep deprivation. During these lapses, a wave of cerebrospinal fluid flows out of the brain — a process that ...

The areas most affected by atrophy are the hippocampus, where the cells start declining and shrink (plays role in memory); the front lobe (judgement and everyday decision making); and temporal lobe ...