As we age, we begin to lose the connections that wire up our brains-and neuroscientists aren't sure why. It is increasingly clear, though, that the loss of synapses-the flexible and adaptive relay ...

Scientists at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, (NUS Medicine), have identified a molecular switch that helps aging brains ...

Using an aging clock, researchers from the University of Cologne have used the Caenorhabditis elegans model organism to demonstrate that nerve cells age differently. They identified both the causes of ...

Harvard scientist Rudolph Tanzi shared his plan for brain health and aging well, including habits for sleep, stress, and social interaction.

Many people believe that, with the passage of time, our brains become slower, memory fails, and learning new things becomes more difficult. However, today we ...

For decades, brain aging sounded like a one-way street: neurons slow down, memory slips, and the best anyone could hope for was to delay the decline. A wave of new research is challenging that ...

Daily routines change, and many older adults find that learning new processes becomes more difficult over time. Slower ...

The human brain possesses an extraordinary ability to heal, regenerate and even reverse signs of aging when provided with the right conditions. This remarkable discovery has revolutionized our ...

An unexpected trio — green tea, walnuts and a tiny aquatic plant called Mankai — might help keep the brain young, new research suggests. In an 18-month randomized trial of nearly 300 adults, a ...

While we've known for some time that obesity affects the brain, scientists have found that, more importantly, it's where you carry it that matters. And it's the deep visceral fat around organs that ...

Playing music, dancing, creating art — and even playing some types of video games — aren’t just immersive and emotionally rewarding. They may actually slow down brain aging, a new study suggests. By ...