Researchers found that higher blood levels of p-tau217 were strongly linked to future dementia in women over decades of follow-up. The biomarker could provide a less invasive way to detect risk ...

Smoking is widely known to damage the lungs and heart, but its impact on the brain is often overlooked. Cigarette smoke contains thousands of toxic chemicals that affect blood vessels, oxygen supply, ...

A new study suggests that biological age improvements are tied to a reduced stroke risk and improved brain health, suggesting that certain lifestyle changes could help to cut stroke risk and protect ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

At a research lab in Chennai, scientists are working to understand one of the least understood organs of the human body: the brain. The Indian Express travels to the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre ...

FROM THESE CANOES TO THE DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, HOUSE HE SHARES WITH HIS LOVING WIFE, DEB. BUT AT THE AGE OF 58, BILL’S ST ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego have found that a novel blood-based biomarker can predict a woman's risk of developing dementia as many as 25 years before symptoms appear.

Studying the minds of octogenarians with surprising cognitive resilience shows how it's possible to maintain a youthful brain well into old age.

Dementia is one of the biggest health challenges facing aging populations around the world. Millions of people develop memory loss and thinking problems as they grow older, and Alzheimer’s disease is ...

Women with higher levels of p-tau217, a blood protein, were twice as likely to eventually develop dementia or mild cognitive impairment.

Exercise your brain,” experts advise people hoping to stave off dementia. But how? Stretching your brain might be the better description. Do a crossword puzzle a day and you may just ...

In a recent study published in Nature, scientists found that elderly adults known as “super-agers” had about twice as many newly formed neurons in their hippocampi—the brain ...