A better understanding of dementia risk can lead to improvements in care and in treatments, and a new study identifies a link ...

Exercise reduces stress hormones and boosts the release of "feel-good" chemicals like serotonin and dopamine. These natural ...

In a study published in Neuron, a research team at the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, aimed to ...

Excess sugar intake is increasingly linked to a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease, not as a direct cause, but by promoting ...

A recent study suggests daily consumption of common zero-calorie sweeteners like aspartame and saccharin may accelerate ...

Researchers have discovered some good news about the march of time, and there’s less to dread and more to celebrate.

Neuroscientists probing the boundary between sleep and awareness are finding many types of liminal states, which help explain ...

A new study has brought scientists one step further in the direction of developing a cure for a brutal group of rare brain ...

Dominika Pilat, PhD, and Ana Griciuc, PhD, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital are the lead and senior authors of a paper published in Neuron, "The Gain-of-Function ...

A new study has identified a mutation in the TREM2 gene that disrupts the brain’s ability to clear toxic amyloid plaques, increasing Alzheimer’s disease risk.