An aging mouse forgets where the hidden platform sits in a water maze. But strip away a single iron-storage protein from its hippocampal neurons, and the animal navigates like a younger version of ...

How does brain metabolism affect aging? Researchers received a $3.3M NIH grant to study neurometabolic coupling and Alzheimer ...

A group of nerve cells essential for cognition may be especially vulnerable to DNA damage upon exposure to inflammation in MS.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. abstract brain cell A small population of nerve cells appears to be responsible for blood flow and neural activity across the ...

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Different parts of the brain perform a variety of functions, all of ...

New research from UAB reveals how tau seeds spread through connected neurons in Alzheimer’s disease. Findings show that ...

Scientists have found that your brain separates memories into “what” and “where/when” using two different groups of neurons. One set responds to specific objects or people, while another tracks the ...

A new study finds that looking at something and imagining it triggers the same exact process in the brain. It's also very similar to the process artificial intelligence uses to create an image.

I spent years assuming my brain couldn’t change. Not in a resigned way. Just in the background, the way you assume most ...

When you get up out of a chair, your blood pressure instantly increases to compensate for the movement and keep you from ...

While many habits affect brain health, experts warn that one may be aging your brain faster than you think: a sedentary ...