A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

Cambridge researchers have revealed a detailed picture of how the human brain grows from mid-pregnancy through the first ...

Concerned about dementia risk? It may be time to shake up your exercise routine.

Microglia are the brain's immune cells that clean out debris, such as damaged proteins and old cell parts, to keep the organ ...

Consistent exercise boosts blood flow among other mind-body benefits.

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Research investigating the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on individuals with depression and ...

Genetic study reveals that people who have elevated blood glucose two hours after eating face significantly higher ...

For some time, we've known that it's rare to see people with both cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Now, scientists believe ...

Climber Alex Honnold is set to scale one of the world's tallest buildings without any ropes or safety nets.

"Each additional 'year' of brain age is associated with meaningful differences in later-life health," a senior author of the ...

A hidden protein buildup in brain blood vessels may quietly quadruple dementia risk—often without a stroke as warning.