An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and ...

By comparing participants' first and second sleep studies, researchers discovered a link between each percentage point ...

Work could lead to the discovery of new therapeutic targets. For the first time, researchers have identified "molecular ...

The world's population is aging, and dementia and Alzheimer's are becoming more common. Alzheimer's also tends to impact more ...

A Princeton-led team of scientists has made an enormous step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap – scientifically speaking, a “connectome ...

According to dementia experts, these are seven brain health rules to ... Another key brain health rule is to avoid social isolation. “As social beings, the human brain thrives on interacting with ...

Although age is the most significant risk factor for dementia, memory alterations are natural as we age. After age 40, the typical human brain decreases by about 5% every decade. This can have a ...

Daniel J. Levitin's “I Heard There Was a Secret Chord” explores the many ways music can help heal our bodies and minds.

In a promising breakthrough, an international team of researchers from the UK, US, and Japan has developed a new Alzheimer’s drug that effectively prevents the build-up of Tau proteins -- a key driver ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s ... Because it’s confounding to cure what we don’t ...

This default mode is activated during divergent thinking, and researchers believe it plays a key role in our flashes of genius ...