Dementia affects approximately 8.5 million Americans aged 65 and older, according to the National Institute on Aging. This progressive condition significantly impacts individuals, families, and ...

Microplastics have moved from distant ocean gyres into the most intimate of places: the human brain. A growing body of ...

Routine brain scans are starting to reveal something that was invisible to doctors a decade ago: subtle structural changes ...

These seniors are having a moment. Life expectancy in the US hovers around 78.4 years — there’s a special group of people who surpass this mark with flying colors. The retirees, known as “SuperAgers,” ...

Dementia was linked to impairments involving the glymphatic system in a study of 44,000 people. Three markers of CSF dynamics were associated with incident dementia over a median follow-up of 5 years.

Staring at the ceiling while the clock blinks 3am doesn't only sap energy for the next day. A large, long-running U.S. study of older adults has now linked chronic insomnia to changes inside the brain ...

The limbic system helps regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory. It consists of structures that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above ...

A safe and affordable treatment to slow the advancement of Parkinson's dementia has emerged – in the form of a commonly available cough syrup that's already being studied for its positive effect on ...