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They're tiny particles—with potentially huge human consequences. Researchers from Aarhus University have identified a defect ...

An umbrella term used to describe a cluster of neurological symptoms, dementia is not a disease in and of itself, and is in ...

Women are at much greater risk of dementia than men—as many as two-thirds of people in the US with Alzheimer’s disease are women—and likely for a mix of reasons that experts are still parsing out. One ...

The brain has its own waste disposal system—known as the glymphatic system—that's thought to be more active when we sleep.

It sounds like science fiction. Scientists take ordinary skin or blood cells, rewind them to a stem-cell state, then ...

As life expectancy increases across the world, the challenge of keeping the brain sharp has become a central issue in public ...

Study authors accounted for factors such as age, high blood pressure, use of sleep medications and a diagnosis of sleep apnea ...

Leno was granted conservatorship over his wife’s estate in April 2024 because she had been “progressively losing capacity and ...

A new Johns Hopkins study reveals a non-invasive brain scan, QSM MRI, that can predict dementia risk years before symptoms ...

As cats grow older, some begin to show strange new behaviors. They may start meowing more often, seem confused, or struggle ...

Scientists followed more than 2,750 healthy older adults (without known cognitive issues) for an average of six years, ...