New research has linked levels of vitamin D in midlife with toxic tangles of tau protein that accumulate in the brains of ...

Boosting the brain's waste-disposal system is increasingly showing promise for Alzheimer's disease, with a study now ...

Summary: For decades, scientists have known that the protein tau acts like a wildfire in the brain, leaping from region to ...

Changes to tiny structures in the brain that can be detected in MRI scans could serve as a potential early indicator of Alzheimer’s, a new study suggests. Alzheimer’s dementia progressively worsens as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biologically speaking, there is no organ as vital or complex as the brain. And yet, the brain still remains somewhat a of a ...

Western University researchers have been awarded $10.4 million for work intended to improve disease detection.

WPI researchers have used a form of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze anatomical changes in the brain and predict Alzheimer's disease with nearly 93% accuracy. Their research, published in the ...

Memory loss often feels like something that arrives late in life. In reality, the story may begin much earlier, long before ...

A hidden waste-removal pathway in the brain has finally been caught in action. Using cutting-edge MRI scans, researchers ...

Biologically speaking, there is no organ as vital or complex as the brain. And yet, the brain still remains somewhat a of a mystery-there’s a lot that even experts don’t know. Another troubling fact ...