Experts warn that even moderate drinking can have stronger, longer-lasting, and more harmful effects on the body and brain as we age.

Smith Could a simple blood test predict your risk of getting dementia years, or even decades, before you experience memory ...

A neurologist was asked whether traumatic brain injury could have caused “amnesia and the creation of false memories regarding the details of the accident.” ...

Research, led by teams at Trinity College Dublin and the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Center, has pinpointed the mechanism ...

The neurodegenerative condition chronic traumatic encephalopathy appears to be driven by damage to the blood-brain barrier ...

A non-intoxicating compound in cannabis could offer a breakthrough treatment for alcohol use disorder. New research shows CBD ...

Researchers used positron emission tomography, or PET, brain imaging on 32 people with AUD and 29 controls. They found 11% lower synaptic density in the frontal cortex, striatum, and hippocampus of ...

Keeping your brain active through social interaction, learning new skills and regular exercise could play an important role ...

Keeping your brain active through social interaction, learning new skills and regular exercise could play an important role in protecting long term brain health. Psychologist Kimberley Wilson joined ...

If you’ve taken amphetamines such as speed, you need to wait a month before doing so again, both to combat the effects of sleep deprivation and overheating, and to avoid falling into chronic use, ...

A wave of recent neuroscience research has identified specific molecular and cellular mechanisms through which alcohol disrupts signaling between brain cells, offering a sharper picture of how ...

Exercise has a well known association with the maintenance of healthy cognition in aging, but the exact, biological reasons behind that link are not fully understood. Researchers have now gained some ...