The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest, with recent ...

By analyzing brain activity in mice, they determined that a fat molecule called PIP2 acts as a brake on Piezo1. When brain ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...

Brain health is built daily. Science, lifestyle, and nutrition can shape focus, memory, and resilience at every age.

Five hundred people in the Canadian province of New Brunswick were diagnosed with a "mystery brain disorder" that resembled prion disease; a 2025 study offered explanations, but some patients rejected ...

The family of Andre Yarham, who died of frontotemporal dementia, hopes his brain can help scientific research. He is ...

About 1 million Americans suffer from Parkinson's disease, with around 90,000 new cases diagnosed each year, according to the Parkinson's Foundation. The chronic, degenerative brain disorder destroys ...

Researchers have identified a key molecular interaction that accelerates Parkinson’s disease by damaging the brain’s energy ...

Researchers have discovered a brain activity pattern that can predict which people with mild cognitive impairment are likely ...

New research links inflammation to mental health symptoms. Personalized care using brain and immune data could improve symptoms when standard treatments don’t work.

With a new year, a healthier brain can boost your happiness and career success in 2026, plus offset brain diseases, if you ...