The family of Andre Yarham, who died of frontotemporal dementia, hopes his brain can help scientific research. He is ...

Activating two somatostatin receptors enhances amyloid beta breakdown and improves memory in models of Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the RIKEN Center for Brain ...

Researchers have discovered a brain activity pattern that can predict which people with mild cognitive impairment are likely ...

There’s this idea that something happens in the human brain when we turn 25. Suddenly, we can rent a car without fees. Make ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

A British man has died due to frontotemporal dementia at just 24 years of age. When he was diagnosed after symptoms began in ...

October saw several universities launch major initiatives in brain science and neurological research, often with the help of new private gifts to underwrite their efforts. Here are summaries of the ...

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age. The results of this 10-week study back earlier ...

Soon enough, though, it became clear that spaceflight is not, in and of itself, all that harmful to mammals, their hearts, or ...

Ever wonder why starting feels harder than finishing? Brain research shows stress can quietly block motivation before action ...

Your brain and your politics go hand in hand. We all know someone —an uncle, a colleague, a childhood friend— who seems to ...