A human biologist told Newsweek that Alzheimer's research should stop focusing on one molecule and study the wider system.

We've known for decades that we don't have lizard brains or mammalian brains, so why do people still think we do?

Alzheimer's disease is not only about the accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain. A growing number of studies indicate ...

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that microglia—the main immune cells of the brain—play a critical role ...

Using animal models representing isolated features of the disease, the team discovered that alcohol dramatically reduces ...

The most comprehensive model of the brain’s metabolism, incorporating more than 16,800 biochemical interactions, has identified key targets to reverse the age-related decline in brain function. The ...

Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that they say could help scientists better understand, prevent, and treat cognitive ...

Your brain has something surprising in common with the ocean: waves. Electrical activity washes over the brain's surface, creating what are called traveling brain waves, or neural traveling waves.