Researchers found that a good night’s sleep may help the brain clear proteins tied to Alzheimer’s.

A study of more than 500 people living with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their caregivers, co-led by researchers at Mass ...

New research suggests that consistent aerobic exercise can help keep your brain biologically younger. Adults who exercised regularly for a year showed brains that appeared nearly a year younger than ...

Concerned about dementia risk? It may be time to shake up your exercise routine.

Researchers report sleep-like states in brainless marine animals, suggesting rest began as a basic cellular repair mechanism.

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD By seamlessly tracking brain growth from the womb into early life, researchers uncover when key brain regions surge and how subtle sex differences emerge before birth. Study: ...

When people sit down for a meal, they don’t think about what to do with their hands when eating. It’s just second nature. Yet, their hands are constantly adapting posture and grip to the cutlery, food ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have developed a flexible, needle-thin brain electrode capable of ...

Cambridge researchers have revealed a detailed picture of how the human brain grows from mid-pregnancy through the first ...

A new study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging suggests that stress experienced during basic combat training may dampen the brain’s ability to respond to ...