These neurodegenerative changes may also cause your brain to shrink more than people ... protein found in a fatty membrane that covers nerve cells. Clumps of beta-amyloid fragments stick together ...

For instance, young adults who studied language intensively increased their cortical thickness in language areas. Similarly, ...

Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Brain fog is a mental cloudiness that can make it hard to focus, remember things, or ...

The findings could lead to a potential treatment for a common cause of blindness Image show two optic nerves (Photo courtesy ...

Focusing treatments for depression and anxiety to gut cells instead of brain cells may help people feel better without side effects.

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an injury to your brain, often caused by a blow to the head. TBIs can damage nerve cells and cause bleeding or swelling in your brain. Most TBIs are treatable ...

In the Nature Communications research, the scientists replicated learning over time by studying two types of non-brain human cells in a laboratory (one from nerve tissue and one from kidney tissue ...

New theories suggest Alzheimer's may involve autoimmunity, with beta-amyloid linked to immune response misfires.

Scientists exploring the trade-off have discovered unique genetic features that show how human brain cells handle the stress ... nearly seven times bigger. How your brain detects patterns in ...