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The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember — it’s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called “SuperAgers,” who possess a brain that fights back. For these people, memories stay as sharp as they were 30 or more years in the past. Carol Siegler, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Palatine, is …

A greasy takeaway may seem like an innocent Friday night indulgence. But our recent research suggests even a single high-fat meal could impair blood flow to the brain, potentially increasing the risk of stroke and dementia. Dietary fat is an important part of our diet. It provides us with a concentrated source of energy, transports vitamins and when stored in …

Can delaying a disease as monstrous as Alzheimer’s be as simple as walking and eating nutritious foods? To some degree, yes. Wundervisuals / Getty Images A June 2025 study in Molecular Neurodegeneration assessed this topic and concluded that “up to 45% of dementia risk can be attributed to modifiable risk factors,” namely exercise and diet. What happens, the study explained, …

In a breakthrough that reimagines the way the gut and brain communicate, researchers have uncovered what they call a “neurobiotic sense,” a newly identified system that lets the brain respond in real time to signals from microbes living in our gut. The new research, led by Duke University School of Medicine neuroscientists Diego Bohórquez, PhD, and M. Maya Kaelberer, PhD, …

Human tissue samples De-identified human specimens were collected from the Autopsy Service in the Department of Pathology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) (Supplementary Table 2) with previous patient consent in strict observance of the legal and institutional ethical regulations. Autopsy consents and all protocols for human prenatal brain tissue procurement were approved by the Human Gamete, Embryo and …

These authors contributed equally: Takahiro Masuda, Klaus-Peter Knobeloch, Marco Prinz Institute of Neuropathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Maximilian Frosch, Takashi Shimizu, Emile Wogram, Lukas Amann, Maximilian Fliegauf, Marius Schwabenland, Chintan Chhatbar, Thomas Blank, Klaus-Peter Knobeloch & Marco Prinz Center for Mass Spectrometry and Optical Spectroscopy (CeMOS), Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany Lars Gruber & Carsten Hopf Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany Lars Gruber & Carsten Hopf Institute …

A newborn baby has been left with brain damage after being infected with a rare virus while on a family walk in Martha’s Vineyard. The one-month-old baby, Lily Belle Sisco, was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital on July 24 with a persistent 102-degree fever.  Lily later started having seizures and was determined to have viral encephalitis. The baby’s family learned over …

Migration of transplanted allogeneic myeloid cells into the brain following systemic hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells transplantation (HCT) holds great promise as a therapeutic modality to correct genetic deficiencies in the brain such as lysosomal storage diseases.1–3 However, the toxic myeloablation required for allogeneic HCT can cause serious, life-threatening side effects limiting its applicability. Moreover, transplanted allogeneic myeloid cells are …

You know those mornings where you wake up after eight full hours… and still feel like you’ve been hit by a freight train? Been there. More than I’d like to admit. At some point, I had to stop blaming my mattress and start paying attention to what else was going on. Because if you’re constantly tired even after sleeping “enough,” …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mother of the man who killed four people at a Manhattan office tower home to the NFL told 911 dispatchers during a 2022 incident when he threatened to kill himself that he suffered from a sports-related concussion and other issues, new information released by Las Vegas police Tuesday revealed. Shane Tamura, 27, had a documented …