Aging brains may struggle to clear out waste, contributing to memory loss and diseases like Alzheimer’s. But researchers have now found that improving the brain’s waste-draining vessels in old mice ...

Many of us have a brain that is older than our years. But there are plenty of things you can do to counteract this, says ...

The hormonal upheaval in the run-up to menopause can cause cognitive difficulties. But researchers are also finding that this can be a critical window for protecting long-term brain health ...

After a stroke, gamma oscillations disappear, and parvalbumin neurons lose their connections. Gamma oscillations are like the ...

Epilepsy, apart from causing seizures, can also lead to memory dysfunction in certain parts of the brain. Shrinkage of ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

A team of neurologists and neurosurgeons made a breakthrough in figuring out how we remember words. The post Brainy ...

John Tregoning, a scientist, tried a range of hacks said to help him live longer, from a calorie-restricted diet to gene ...

Serotonin has become much more than a hormone: it's a wellness buzzword that allegedly carries the weight of our wellbeing.

A new fMRI study reveals that babies as young as 12 months can encode memories, contradicting theories that memory formation ...

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

Why can't we remember when we were babies? Scientists who scanned infants' brains found that they do make memories. The ...