Baylor researchers show boosting Sox9 in astrocytes clears amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s mice, preserving cognition and ...

Researchers discovered that raising the protein Sox9 can help the brain’s astrocytes clear out toxic plaque buildup linked to ...

Scientists have discovered that the brain may have a built-in way to fight Alzheimer’s.

A Harvard neurologist shares how many steps you should aim for each day for a healthy brain to prevent memory loss and ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the ...

In Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common cause of dementia, microglia (the immune cells of the brain) can behave in very different ways. At times, they help protect the brain, and at other ...

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Memory doesn’t live only in the brain. Scientists are uncovering signs that cells throughout the body can remember, too. These findings are starting to challenge old ideas about how and where memory ...

Anxiety can feel like a storm that starts deep inside the skull. For years, neuroscientists have known that the amygdala — an ...

New research reveals that neurons release a little-understood extracellular kinase called VLK to strengthen synaptic ...

Manaker says it’s fitting that walnuts look somewhat like tiny brains — take it as a hint from Mother Nature that this tree ...

Food choices shape far more than your waistline, they influence how clearly your mind works each day. Certain everyday ...