While some decline in the ability to remember is a normal part of aging, for a subset of people, growing older brings the onset of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. In such ...

WHAT YOUR NOSE KNOWS ABOUT YOUR BRAIN. JESSICA IS HERE WITH SOME GROUNDBREAKING WORK THAT SOME LOCAL DOCTORS ARE DOING. JESSICA. YES THAT’S RIGHT. RESEARCHERS AT MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL NOW BELIEVE YOU ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when lysosomes, the cellular sanitation machines responsible for those tasks, break down or ...

Memory actually takes many different forms. We know that when we store a memory, we are storing information. But, what that information is and how long we retain it determines what type of memory it ...

Researchers have discovered two types of brain cells that play a key role in dividing continuous human experience into distinct segments that can be recalled later. The discovery provides new promise ...