Peering into the human brain has never been easy. For decades, neuroscientists have relied on heavy, expensive machines to measure blood flow and oxygen levels that reveal how the brain works. These ...

When a person first exhibits signs of having a stroke, the timing of treatment is critical to restore blood flow to the brain ...

Share on Pinterest An experimental brain scan may be able to accurately predict a person’s risk of age-related disorders. Image credit: Rafe Swan/Getty Images. People age at different rates, partly ...

Our bodies change as we get older, and one undesirable result is that we become more vulnerable to age-related issues. Particularly, old age is characterized by a significant physical and mental ...

Researchers have created a new mathematical method for analyzing standard brain scans to predict the onset of Alzheimer’s ...

Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons.

A study analyzing 1,154 children and adolescents breaks new ground in how to think about the growing diagnosis.

LOS ANGELES, California — Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has learned from a recent brain scan that parts of her brain show what doctors described as “low activity,” a startling finding that came not ...