The current human tissue-based study provides convincing evidence correlating hippocampal expressions of RNA guanine-rich G-quadruplexes with aging and with Alzheimer's Disease presence and severity.

White matter disease is the wearing away of tissue in the largest and deepest part of your brain. The loss of white matter function has a number of causes, including aging. This tissue contains ...

You might be familiar with a sensation called "brain zaps," or sensory disturbances that feel like electric shocks inside the brain. This symptom can occur after you skip or stop antidepressants ...

But scientists have long assumed that bacteria can’t survive in the human brain. The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders.

The brain plays a big part in the aging process, and scientists think they’ve pinpointed the specific cells that control it. In a study of mice, researchers at the Allen Institute identified ...

These changes include reduced activity in neuronal circuitry genes and increased activity in immunity-related genes. The findings provide a detailed map of age-sensitive brain regions, offering ...

There’s an actual science behind that. “The brain receives fewer images than it was trained to receive when young,” argues Bejan. He theorises that the rate at which we process visual ...

The brain plays a big part in the aging process, and scientists think they’ve pinpointed the specific cells that control it. In a study of mice, researchers at the Allen Institute identified ...

Some brain cells are more sensitive to the aging process Scientists studied individual brain cells of 2-month-old, 18-month-old mice Cells lining the third ventricle were the most sensitive to aging.