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Ultrasound can overcome some of the detrimental effects of ageing and dementia without the need to cross the blood-brain barrier, researchers have found.

Researchers have found that high levels of a normal protein associated with reduced heart disease also protect against Alzheimer’s-like damage in mice, opening up new approaches to slowing or stopping brain damage and cognitive decline in people with A…

Researchers have developed a method to combine three brain-imaging techniques to more precisely capture the timing and location of brain responses to a stimulus. Their study is the first to combine the three widely used technologies – fMRI, EEG and ERO…

Researchers have discovered a mechanism in a small area of the brain that regulates whole-body glucose balance without affecting body weight.

A research team recently published the results of a three-year study of cognitive changes in older adults who complained that their cognitive ability was worsening though clinical assessments showed no impairments. The MRI studies showed significant ch…

Researchers have shown why people with mental health disorders, including anorexia and panic disorders, experience physical signals differently.

Scientists have long known the brain’s hippocampus is crucial for long-term memory. Now a new study has found the hippocampus also plays a role in short-term memory and helps guide decision-making. The findings shed light on how the hippocampus contrib…

The visual thalamus is classically known to relay visual stimuli coming from the retina to the cerebral cortex. Researchers now show that although neurons in the mouse visual thalamus connect to both eyes, they establish strong functional connections o…

People who are physically active during childhood have higher cognitive functions in later life. Participants who exercised when they were children did better on cognitive tests regardless of their current age. However, no such relationship was found b…

Will a reduction in tau protein in brain neurons protect against Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementias? A new study suggests the answer is no. If this is borne out, that result differs from Alzheimer’s disease, where reducing endogenous tau level…