Intermittent fasting has moved far beyond a weight loss trend, with early evidence hinting that time restricted eating may ...

Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

Dementia has long been framed as a slow, irreversible loss of neurons, but a new line of research is shifting attention to ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

Researchers studying the human brain shared a lot of fascinating research this year, like how to keep brains young and how to reduce inflammation in joints.

Is curing Alzheimer’s an impossible challenge or can we get there? I was invited to attend brain surgery at the forefront of dementia research. I’m wearing a surgical gown in the back ...

Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.

Scientists reversed advanced Alzheimer's in mice using a compound that restores cellular energy. The breakthrough challenges ...

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

Researchers found that cold is detected differently in the skin than in internal organs. This split system helps explain why ...

Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and ...

MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...