When scientists are looking to model trajectories of healthy aging, they commonly use brain age, commonly predicted through ...

Scientists have uncovered a powerful new clue in the mystery of brain aging: a single protein called FTL1. In aging mice, higher levels of this protein weakened connections between brain cells and led ...

Compared to novices, seasoned birders had denser, more structurally complex brain regions involved with tasks like object ...

An aging mouse forgets where the hidden platform sits in a water maze. But strip away a single iron-storage protein from its hippocampal neurons, and the animal navigates like a younger version of ...

While many habits affect brain health, experts warn that one may be aging your brain faster than you think: a sedentary ...

A recent study found that a specific diet could help slow down brain changes that come with age.

Greater adherence to the MIND diet was consistently linked to slower brain atrophy over the 12-year follow-up period.

A new single-cell atlas shows how epigenetic changes reshape brain cells during aging, revealing genomic instability, regional differences, and potential biomarkers of brain aging. More than 57 ...

People whose brain age is older than their actual chronological age by 10 years may have a 39% higher future risk of dementia ...

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Sanford Burnham Prebys explore genetic factors in separate papers ...

When most people think about aging, they imagine a linear progression towards an inevitable end. They think in terms of birthdays, knowing that the more candles on the cake, the more we should ...