A weight-maintaining hormone is essential for brain-signal transmission. New research is more closely linking obesity to ...

The mother of an eight-year-old boy with a rare disease has spoken of her pride at seeing him complete Ironkids Wales with a ...

Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin says listening to music can help cure certain medical issues, including one suffered by Joni MItchell.

Understand Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia, accounting for approximately 80% of ...

Scientists have developed new potential therapies that selectively remove aggregated tau proteins, which are associated with Alzheimer's disease, and improve symptoms of neurodegeneration in mice.

Immunotherapy can remove extracellular amyloid plaques from Alzheimer’s brain, but has so far failed to clear intracellular tau tangles. Now, two papers propose a solution: tagging them for ...

A study shows the MIND diet had a stronger predictive effect on cognitive decline in Black trial participants compared to ...

In the past two years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two monoclonal antibody treatments to slow ...

New research confirms that the MIND diet can have a protective effect on the aging brain, and finds that women — especially ...

“Alzheimer’s patients” suffer from loss of memory, which may cause them to forget people, places, and directions. It is an ...

Scientists discovered a link between copper regulation and neurodegeneration, using the worm gene swip-10. Their findings suggest that restoring copper balance could offer new treatments for disorders ...

A groundbreaking study from Weill Cornell Medicine has revealed that immune cells in the brain, known as border-associated ...