Menopause marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years. But the transition affects far more than reproductive health: it also reshapes the brain. As estrogen and progesterone decline, cognitive ...

A heart transplant at a major hospital in the Seoul metropolitan area exposed serious flaws in Korea’s organ allocation ...

Sundowner syndrome is becoming a frequent description of aging dogs. It describes elderly dogs that have a pattern of ...

At the edge of death, some people wake into sudden clarity. Terminal lucidity is one of the mind’s most baffling mysteries.

Researchers have discovered that problems with the brain’s waste-clearing system—the glymphatic system—may significantly ...

Village Caregiving reports that frontotemporal dementia is a progressive brain disease affecting behavior, speech, and memory ...

Cedars-Sinai researchers created “young” immune cells from human stem cells that reversed cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s ...

Neurons have dominated neuroscience research for decades, but a growing body of evidence suggests that a group of ...

Alzheimer's disease is notorious for scrambling patients' daily rhythms. Restless nights with little sleep and increased napping during the day are early indicators of disease onset, while sundowning, ...

MRI scans from nearly 40,000 people revealed biomarkers linked to defective toxin clearance in the brain predicted the susceptibility to dementia later in life.

Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep ...

Most people describe their response to misophonia triggers as emotional. Yet, emotions are only a part of the misophonia ...