Alzheimer's disease may damage the brain in two distinct phases, based on new research using sophisticated brain mapping tools. According to researchers who discovered this new view, the first, early ...

How do we distinguish threat from safety? It’s a question important not just in our daily lives, but for human disorders ...

Results show that older people with memory impairments have poorer communication between different regions in the brain. They also tend to have lower quality in the fibres connecting these brain ...

For decades, Alzheimer's research has focused on examining amyloid plaques in the brain and prescribing antibody therapeutics that remove the plaques to slow cognitive decline in patients.

Researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, UW Medicine, and Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute ...

Your brain continues to work Think your brain is too old to learn new tricks, let alone keep cognitive decline at bay? That's faulty reasoning. Research featured in the journal Cell: Stem Cell reveals ...

Higher levels of HDL-C -- known as the 'good cholesterol' -- have been shown to correlate with heightened risk for Alzheimer's disease. A new study might explain why.

Memory problems can occur in people with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder can impact cognitive function, particularly ...