The study, published March 6 in Nature Medicine, shows that the brain’s immune cells, called microglia, play a more powerful ...

The research looked specifically at blood stem cells, which live in the bone marrow and make different types of blood cells.

June is Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month. With an estimated 55 million people living with Alzheimer's Disease and other ...

Scientists have identified specific brain cells which respond most to exercise, an advance that could lead to a pill to boost ...

While physical activity is known to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease, many patients are unable to exercise due ...

Tulane University researchers created a first-of-its-kind subcellular map of an area of the brain commonly affected by ...

What exactly is Alzheimer’s disease, and how common is it? A: Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that causes dementia. It is caused in part by the accumulation of abnormally folded ...

A new study finds rare neural stem cells in the adult human hippocampus, suggesting some brains can generate new neurons into ...

New research reveals that Alzheimer's disease may impair nerve function not by reducing myelin, but by altering the proteins ...

Now, researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet say they’ve found the clearest answer yet. They report the discovery of ...