The brain age gap (BAG) plays a role in mediating the influence of cognitive impairment risk factors on cognitive function, especially among individuals with high cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) burden ...

Healthy blood vessels matter for more than just heart health. Vascular well-being is critical for brain health and ...

“Vascular brain injury disproportionately affects individuals who experience socioeconomic disadvantage,” the study authors noted, explaining that this damage has been directly linked to ...

Your brain burns fat during a marathon For his study, Matute and colleagues scanned the brains of 10 recreational runners using MRI before and after a marathon, and again two weeks to two months ...

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist, I am always looking for the biological underpinnings of mental processes—not as an effort to distill mystery into molecules, but to ...

Scientists have known for more than a century that, at the moment of death, CSF flows from the spine into the brain. This suggests that the living brain somehow keeps the stuff moving, but no one ...

Özen, I., et al. (2025). Traumatic brain injury causes early aggregation of beta-amyloid peptides and NOTCH3 reduction in vascular smooth muscle cells of leptomeningeal arteries.

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday ...

It’s a complex yet efficient cleaning mechanism that works in every organ except the brain. “When cells are active, they produce waste metabolites, and this also happens in the brain.

Using an AI tool, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have analysed brain images from 70-year-olds and estimated their brains’ biological age. They found that factors detrimental to vascular ...

Using an AI tool, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have analyzed brain images from 70-year-olds and estimated their brains’ biological age. They found that factors detrimental to vascular health, ...

The brain of the average adult weighs about 3 pounds; approximately 60 percent of that is fat, and the remaining 40 percent is a combination of water, protein, carbohydrates, and salts. It’s ...