This optical illusion confuses the brain, revealing how perception works and misfires. It also shows links between visual ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

An experimental method, which can predict the aging rate of both brain and body, may detect who should implement lifestyle changes to reduce their risk of age-related conditions, including dementia.

While public health guidance encourages people to eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables daily, the Mind diet ...

The team’s findings showed that these neuronal predecessors are indeed present in the hippocampus throughout adulthood, ...

Cognitive reserve is a concept that has piqued researchers' interest since the 1980s for its potential to buffer against cognitive decline due to aging or ...

New neurons in your brain? A landmark study from Karolinska Institutet finds adults keep forming brain cells into the old age ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory center, the hippocampus, ...

With dementia diagnoses climbing to 55 million cases globally and 10 million new patients identified each year, medical ...

Despite its reputation as a safer chemical, PFHxA—a short-chain PFAS—may cause long-term behavioral changes when exposure ...

The team used a special type of brain scan called tau PET, which tracks a protein known as tau that builds up in the brain ...