Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla have created a new tool to better understand how aging ...

Lifting weights might help keep your mind young. A new study published in GeroScience suggests that older adults who engage ...

By scanning the brains of mice throughout their lifespans, scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and the University of Texas at Dallas have discovered that the human brain is not unique in how ...

Gut microbiome changes may drive age-related memory loss via inflammation and disrupted brain signaling, but interventions in mice show this process can be reversed.

A new single-cell atlas shows how epigenetic changes reshape brain cells during aging, revealing genomic instability, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital illustration of a neuron Our brains age along with the rest of our bodies, and as they do, they produce fewer new brain ...

A look inside the brains of extraordinarily sharp elderly people reveals clues about their unusual abilities. Deep in these exceptional brains were signs of what some scientists believe to be newborn ...

Memories rarely arrive as an unbroken stream. The brain quietly divides life into segments: entering a room, starting a conversation, or watching a new scene unfold. Each shift creates a mental ...

Memory loss may not simply be a symptom of getting older. New research from Virginia Tech shows that it's tied to specific molecular changes in the brain and that adjusting those processes can improve ...

A landmark research paper for the first time maps the genetics of how individual regions of the brain age—and why some of ...

Garlic (Allium sativum) is no longer just useful for preventing attacks by vampires. Recent research suggests that this herb might be useful for slowing or preventing the onset of Alzheimer's disease ...