The three key ages your brain declines dramatically – and what you can do about it

Cognitive decline is natural: it starts to subtly set in by our 40s, and by your mid-50s it’s perfectly normal to find ...
FOX 29 News Philadelphia

Alzheimer’s disease could be reversed by restoring brain balance, study suggests

The medication restored normal NAD+ levels and fully reversed cognitive function in advanced Alzheimer's models.
Baylor College of Medicine

Fruit fly pigmentation guides discovery of genes that control brain dopamine and sleep

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to ...
NPR

Mental exercise can reverse a brain change linked to aging, study finds

Scientists are reporting the first compelling evidence in people that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines with age. A 10-week study of people 65 or older ...

How the brain protects itself from Alzheimer’s disease: Yale study

High levels of calcium are toxic to cells and contribute to loss of neurons in Alzheimer’s disease. A new JCI Insight study ...

New sound therapy found to flush out toxic Alzheimer’s proteins from brain

Scientists have shown that a non-invasive sound stimulation of the brain at a specific frequency can clear toxic proteins ...

Meth inflames and stimulates your brain through similar pathways – new research offers potential avenue to treat meth addiction

Researchers identified a key molecule that highlights how the immune system is linked to the release of dopamine.
News Medical

Microplastics may accumulate in the brain at higher levels than in the kidney or liver

Study: Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains. Image Credit: SIVStockStudio/Shutterstock.com A recent Nature Medicine study assessed the relative ...