The brain has its own waste disposal system – known as the glymphatic system – that’s thought to be more active when we sleep ...

Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things ...

A French civil servant functioned normally with 90 percent of his brain missing. How is this possible? Research reveals ...

A new study points to daily alcohol use creating changes in small blood vessels that help feed and clean brain tissue ...

"The combined amount of evidence implicates sleep in a bi-directional relationship with dementia, meaning that poor sleep earlier in life may contribute to increased risk of dementia, but also early ...

In a world often viewed as uniquely human, the unbelievable intelligence of many animal species challenges the human ...

After a previous study that showed how microplastics can infiltrate all systems of the body—including the blood-brain barrier ...

Learning is a complex process — and so is measuring it. Though research shows we have cause to be concerned about what ...

Alzheimer's disease, which affects more than 7million Americans, is caused by the abnormal build-up of proteins in and around ...

A person will have Alzheimer’s years before ever knowing it. The disorientating erasure of memories, language, thoughts — in ...

A new Virginia Beach clinic designed to help Naval Special Warfare veterans with traumatic brain injuries will start its first cohort this month. The Synapse Integrated Therapy Center will combine ...

For families of children with severe epilepsy, controlling seizures is often just the beginning of their challenges. Even in ...