Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written ...

Researchers found cells that ‘fired’ in pattern that mirrored mileage clock by ticking along with distance travelled ...

Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things ...

Challenge your mind. Like a muscle, the brain strengthens with use. Mander suggests learning a new language, playing music, ...

Fruit fly study shows high-fat diets impair memory in days by jamming the brain’s cleanup system. Damage reversed when cells’ ...

Scientists have uncovered a mechanism by which nanoplastics impair brain energy metabolism, offering new clues into environmental contributions to neurodegeneration.

Researchers show how fatty foods quickly disrupt memory by blocking neurons’ recycling process, with changes appearing in just seven days.

College of Pharmacy Professor Jaime Ross has discovered that cognitive decline occurs in a sex-dependent manner, mirroring patterns observed in humans. Tiny fragments of plastic, known as ...

A Nature study from Harvard suggests lithium loss—known from psychiatric use—may play a key role in Alzheimer’s onset, pointing to a potential new treatment path ...

A new study in Nature demonstrated a link between the mineral lithium in the brain and Alzheimer’s disease.

In a preclinical study, immune cells derived from adult stem cells were shown to reverse signs of neurodegenerative changes in the brain. “Young” immune cells developed by Cedars-Sinai researchers ...