A study found that poor sleep can negatively impact how well the brain flushes out toxins, increasing the risk of dementia.

Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants and the prevalence of dementia.

"Now studying tissue from cross-sections of a single brain to find out whether certain regions have higher ... concentrations ...

Martin Kampmann’s work, supported by the National Institutes of Science (NIH), maps cellular “decision points” that determine ...

The findings link to Alzheimer's, where cholinergic decline accelerates, explaining prior evidence that such training reduces ...

One in five people will develop dementia in their lifetime, but there are early signs that there could be a cure or treatment for the disease in the future.

Rice University has announced the creation of the Rice Brain Institute (RBI), an ambitious, interdisciplinary hub that unites ...

A new Northwestern University study using patient nervous tissue and lab-grown human neurons has uncovered how a key disease ...

Homing in on the junk-food pyramid to rank its most harmful members, researchers from Virginia Tech have discovered that ...

A study shows how Alzheimer’s and cerebral small vessel disease differ in genetic mechanisms. By mapping enhancer regions ...

In the new study, the researchers demonstrated that the human brain falls asleep abruptly, rather than gradually, with a ‘tipping point’ marking the transition from wakefulness into sleep. They were ...

While brain clocks can be used to measure brain health (accelerated or delayed brain ageing), the biophysical models can ...