The brain may lose control over which genes get expressed as it ages.

The diabetes drug you’ve heard of for 60 years just revealed a secret — it’s been working on your brain all along.

A new paper published in Cell Reports, in which researchers work with primates, sheds some light on the question. Researchers ...

Metformin, a widely used drug for treating type 2 diabetes, may work in ways scientists did not fully understand for more ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered how exercise may help protect the brain and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s ...

Researchers at MIT and Harvard have identified a striking biological pattern behind the mental fog that follows a sleepless ...

In a new study published in The Lancet Digital Health, scientists at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and ...

The study points to lasting changes in the locus coeruleus, a brain region that plays a critical role in attention, memory, ...

Poor sleep is associated with an increased risk for dementia, but many sleep studies have had inconsistent results. For the ...

While AI tools increase productivity, they may also cause 'brain fry,' a mental fatigue affecting workers who use the tech a ...

Researchers identified three distinct brain “biotypes” of ADHD, each with its own chemical signature—offering new clues about why treatment can feel like trial and error.

It’s very different from a first pregnancy.