Strokes are a medical emergency, yet imaging can capture only snapshots of how brain damage develops in the hours and days ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to ...

Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, who ...

We're talking octogenarians (or older) with faculties more like their 50s. Here's what Northwestern cognition researchers found they're doing right.

Exercise strengthens both the body and the mind, and researchers are uncovering the molecular messengers that make the connection. The messengers can also be transferred from an active mouse to a ...

A new study suggests that a little-known region deep in the brain could be crucial for preserving physical strength as we age ...

Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. And while scientists have long known that these different senses activate ...

Merely imagining a positive encounter with someone can not only make you like them better but can also change how information about that person is stored in your brain, according to new research ...

About 12M long COVID patients have reported 'brain fog' New study examined 17 people, including 10 with neurological symptoms Findings validate the experiences of 'long-haulers' About 12M long COVID ...

Exercise made 40-year-olds' brains look younger in 12 months, but the biological mystery remains: fitness gains didn't ...