As people age, their episodic memory — the ability to remember past events and experiences — tends to wane, but their ...

Some say you're only as old as you feel. Others say you're as young as you think. But how old is your brain really?

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Some researchers have described the period running up to someone developing ME/CFS and long COVID, as a “prodromal” phase. In ...

Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

Type 2 diabetes may quietly alter the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer’s, weakening reward perception and memory ...

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

Every year, heart disease claims the lives of more Americans than any other health condition, according to the Centers for ...