New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

Rare Disease Day, observed annually on the last day of February, serves as an international campaign to raise awareness about the challenges faced by individuals and families living with rare diseases ...

Loss and dysfunction of synapses have been linked to age-related cognitive decline and observed in Alzheimer's and other ...

Before the emails, before the headlines, before the first sip of coffee, your body is already craving hydration. After seven ...

Many people refer to a stroke as the brain’s equivalent of a heart attack. A stroke occurs when there’s an interruption or ...

By law, donation and transplant groups can’t participate in the decision to end life support, and they’re not in the room ...

With a four-year, $2.7M NIH grant, Hopkins researchers are developing an AI-powered imaging system that can capture brain activity 20 to 50 times faster than current tools ...

A Harvard-discovered protein called REST appears to act as a neural bodyguard in the brains of people who stay cognitively ...

It took a decade, but it finally happened. On Feb. 4, “The Muppet Show” made its grand return on Disney+ and ABC with special ...

Understanding how a healthy brain works can provide insight into how it fails, too. Scientists hope that studying organoids derived from humans with neurodevelopmental disorders — particularly ...

People who abandon every fitness plan aren't lacking willpower — they're trapped in dichotomous thinking, where anything less than perfect execution registers as total failure, making moderation feel ...