A long-term brain imaging study in aging adults showed faster rates of atrophy in certain brain structures to be associated with the risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI). While some ...

New findings based on more than 10,000 MRI scans have shed light on how structural brain changes are tied to memory decline ...

A landmark international study that pooled brain scans and memory tests from thousands of adults has shed new light on how structural brain changes are tied to memory decline as people age. The ...

"We have come to understand that sleep is really intertwined with the neurological processes driving Alzheimer's and similar dementias," said Dr. Alberto Ramos, research director of the Sleep ...

Association seen between HDL cholesterol and greater grey matter volume in midlife independent of traditional risk factors. (HealthDay News) — High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol may help ...

We also risk getting things very, very wrong. Generative AI works by predicting likely words from patterns trained on vast ...

October 20, 2011 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) — A new investigation finds that 6 years after diagnosis, brain volumes and, particularly, cognition were more severely affected in men with multiple ...

The effect of obesity on brain health may depend not only on how much fat is in the body, but also on the areas of the body where fat is stored, according to a study published today in Radiology.

Dear M.L.J.: WE is caused by a lack of thiamine (vitamin B1). (I had never heard the term "wet brain" to describe this ...

When most people think about aging, they imagine a linear progression towards an inevitable end. They think in terms of birthdays, knowing that the more candles on the cake, the more we should ...

I’ve been writing about the brain benefits of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness for over a decade. Every week, it seems there is new research that helps us better understand why exercise ...