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 ...

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.

Researchers have discovered that problems with the brain’s waste-clearing system—the glymphatic system—may significantly ...

Researchers at USC have created the first method to noninvasively measure microscopic blood vessel pulses in the human brain.

Scientists think those cholesterol-lowering statins might be doing something else we didn't know about: protecting our brains ...

Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a brain disease that’s often misunderstood. It’s actually the second most common type of ...

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

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