A new USC-led study has uncovered a significant link between type 2 diabetes mellitus and cortical thickness in older adults ...

According to new research, brain aging is a biological process involving degenerative, adaptive, and regenerative changes in ...

Sitting for long hours may shrink the brain, even in people who exercise. The hippocampus, crucial for memory, loses volume ...

While Alzheimer's disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body. Working with the laboratory fruit fly, ...

What they found was surprising. Using a statistical method called piecewise regression, they discovered that people’s ...

Just 5 minutes of moderate exercise daily significantly improves memory, processing speed and thinking skills in adults over 65.

Hypertension and other health risks accelerate brain aging, as shown in a 16-year study using MRI data and predictive ...

Discover how nighttime wakefulness triggers DNA damage, metabolic chaos, and brain deterioration that accelerates aging and ...

In clinical trials with older adults, structured silence improved ... We’re still working to understand how the brain changes, and we just found out the brain doesn’t learn how we thought ...

Dementia usually impacts older people, and it can be hard to recognize in middle age. Notably, frontotemporal dementia is ...

Reduced oxygen during REM sleep was associated with cerebrovascular damage in areas of the brain associated with memory and ...

Aging cells become "zombie cells," leaking inflammatory chemicals that reach the brain. This disrupts dopamine, serotonin, ...