Spikes in blood sugar after meals are emerging as more than a diabetes concern, with new genetic evidence tying them to a sharply higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Instead of focusing only on long ...

The menopause is linked to changes in the brain similar to those seen in Alzheimer's, according to a large UK study.

Picture a mammal that can deliberately shut down most of its brain functions for most of the year, then wake up in the spring ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

Alzheimer's disease has long been thought to be irreversible, but new research using a mouse model offers hope.

Back in 2019, an international team first identified 109 genes linked in different combinations with eight psychiatric ...

Unraveling the mysteries of how biological organisms function begins with understanding the molecular interactions within and ...

Scientists have mapped the sensory neurons in bone for the first time, and identified their dual role in reporting and ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Alzheimer’s may destroy memory by flipping a single molecular switch that tells neurons to prune their own connections. Researchers found that both amyloid beta and inflammation converge on the same ...