Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say short lapses in attention after poor sleep owe to sudden ...

Reduced blood flow to the brain is thought to be a key factor in many forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's, and ...

Superagers is a term that generally describes adults 80 and older with episodic memory performance similar to that of people ...

A year of consistent exercise appears to rejuvenate the brain – but don’t ask scientists how yet In A Nutshell Adults who ...

"What is good for the heart is good for the brain," one researcher says.

New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this ...

Scientists have uncovered a way to manipulate the pathway in monkey brains that puts the brakes on motivation.

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, forms an abnormal connection with an enzyme called ClpP. This enzyme normally ...

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...