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Scientists Discover a Surprising Clue to Why Some Brains Resist Alzheimer’s

Oct. 27, 2026 Why do some people stay mentally sharp even when their brains show signs of Alzheimer’s disease? Scientists in the Netherlands may have uncovered an important clue hidden in a rare group of ...

Millions Take Fish Oil for Brain Health. a Two-year Study Found No Benefit

Oct. 22, 2026 A surprising two-year clinical trial found that fish oil supplements successfully delivered omega-3s to the brain but failed to improve memory or protect against Alzheimer's-related brain shrinkage. Researchers suspect that getting these nutrients ...

Scientists Find a Way to Fight Alzheimer’s Brain Damage Without Removing Toxic Tau

Oct. 20, 2026 Scientists have found a promising way to protect the brain from Alzheimer’s-related damage by blocking immune cells that contribute to the destruction of neurons. In mice, the treatment preserved ...

Why Some People Escape Alzheimer’s Despite Carrying a High-risk Gene

Oct. 19, 2026 Scientists have discovered why some people with a high genetic risk of Alzheimer’s remain mentally sharp into their 80s, uncovering a rare mutation that protects the brain from harmful protein buildup. The findings reveal a potential new way to ...

"Mind-blowing" Alzheimer’s Breakthrough: Two Hours of Sleep Restored Without Clearing Brain Plaques

Oct. 19, 2026 Scientists have uncovered an unexpected culprit behind sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease: overactive immune cells in the brain. By temporarily removing these cells, researchers restored more than ...

Scientists Find a Youth Protein That Helps Aging Brain Cells Act Young Again

Oct. 17, 2026 Scientists have discovered that a protein linked to youth helps protect the brain’s immune cells from age-related decline. Restoring the protein in older mice improved the cells’ ability to clear ...

Rare Study Reveals a Striking Divide Inside an Alzheimer’s Patient’s Brain

Oct. 15, 2026 A rare examination of an Alzheimer’s patient’s brain revealed that regions cleared of amyloid plaques had remarkably little of the harmful tau buildup associated with memory loss, while ...

Scientists Uncover a Hidden Map of the Brain with 539 Distinct Regions

Oct. 13, 2026 Scientists have uncovered a hidden layer of organization in the brain by creating the first detailed 3D map of its lipids, the fatty molecules essential for brain structure and communication. By analyzing millions of measurements from mouse brains, ...

After 30 Years, Scientists Finally Have a Drug for a Deadly Brain Disease

Oct. 12, 2026 The FDA has approved the first drug that directly targets Alexander disease, a devastating neurological disorder affecting fewer than one in a million people. Developed through decades of research, Zanvastro showed promising results in clinical ...

Scientists Find Hidden Driver of Aging and a Simple Amino Acid That Fights Memory Loss in Mice

Oct. 12, 2026 Scientists discovered that declining levels of a protein called Menin may help drive aging, and restoring it in older mice reversed several age-related changes in just 30 days. Even more ...

Scientists Discover 5 Hidden Brain Patterns Behind Depression

Oct. 9, 2026 Depression may not be one biological condition, but several distinct patterns of brain activity hiding under the same diagnosis. Researchers studying 263 people with depression identified five brain profiles, each showing different patterns of ...

Alzheimer’s Risk Gene APOE4 May Have a Reversible Weakness

Oct. 1, 2026 The Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 may actively damage brain blood vessels and sabotage the cellular systems that remove harmful proteins. Researchers were able to reverse some of these effects in experiments, revealing promising new targets for ...

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Scientists Discover a Surprising Secret Behind the Human Brain’s Wrinkles

Oct. 22, 2026 Scientists have discovered why common marmosets have unusually small, smooth brains despite starting development much like other primates. The secret lies in subtle changes to brain-building cells ...

Mysterious Brain Activity Under Anesthesia Challenges What We Know About Consciousness

Oct. 15, 2026 Even under general anesthesia, the human brain can analyze language, recognize different types of words, and predict what comes next in a story, ...

Scientists Find a New Layer of Alzheimer’s Hidden in the Genome

Sep. 13, 2026 Scientists found that the 3D organization of DNA is disrupted in several types of brain cells affected by Alzheimer’s disease, altering how important genes are switched on and off. The discovery ...

Immune Cells Flood Into the Aging Brain, Stanford Scientists Discover

Aug. 14, 2026 Scientists have discovered that the aging human brain may be far less isolated from the rest of the body than once believed. Stanford researchers found that large numbers of immune cells from the ...

Scientists Find Hidden Brain Nutrient Deficit That May Fuel Anxiety

May 16, 2026 A major analysis of brain scans found that people with anxiety disorders have noticeably lower levels of choline, a nutrient crucial for healthy brain function. The strongest evidence appeared in the ...

Scientists Discover a Hidden Brain “cleaning” Effect Triggered by Movement

May 1, 2026 Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between simple body movement and brain health: every time you tighten your abdominal muscles—even ...

Eating More Meat May Lower Alzheimer’s Risk for Some People

Apr. 2, 2026 A surprising new study suggests that genetics may change how diet affects brain health—especially when it comes to Alzheimer’s risk. Researchers found that older adults carrying high-risk APOE ...

Boosting a Key Brain Protein Could Help Treat Rett Syndrome

Mar. 6, 2026 Researchers have discovered a new way to increase a key brain protein damaged in Rett syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that affects thousands of children worldwide. Early studies in mice and ...

This One Gene May Explain Most Alzheimer’s Cases

Jan. 23, 2026 Alzheimer’s may be driven far more by genetics than previously thought, with one gene playing an outsized role. Researchers found that up to nine in ten cases could be linked to the APOE gene — ...

MRI Scans Show Exercise Can Make the Brain Look Younger

Jan. 22, 2026 New research suggests that consistent aerobic exercise can help keep your brain biologically younger. Adults who exercised regularly for a year showed brains that appeared nearly a year younger than ...

Scientists Find ‘master Regulator’ That Could Reverse Brain Aging

Jan. 16, 2026 Researchers have identified OTULIN, an immune-regulating enzyme, as a key trigger of tau buildup in the brain. When OTULIN was disabled, tau vanished from neurons and brain cells remained healthy. ...

A Massive Gene Hunt Reveals How Brain Cells Are Made

Jan. 11, 2026 A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this process possible. Among the discoveries is PEDS1, a gene now linked to a ...

Lithium Deficiency May Be the Hidden Spark Behind Alzheimer’s

Aug. 29, 2025 Harvard scientists have uncovered that lithium, a naturally occurring element in the brain, may be the missing piece in understanding Alzheimer’s. Their decade-long research shows that lithium ...

Alzheimer’s Risk May Start at the Brain’s Border, Not Inside It

Aug. 4, 2025 Your brain has its own elite defense team — and new research shows these "guardian" cells might be the real battleground for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and stroke. ...

Sustained in the Brain: How Lasting Emotions Arise from Brief Stimuli, in Humans and Mice

May 29, 2025 Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, scientists find, opening a window to our emotions and, perhaps, neuropsychiatric ...

Scientists Design Gene Delivery Systems for Cells in the Brain and Spinal Cord

May 21, 2025 Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord with exceptional accuracy. These delivery systems ...

Gene Circuits Enable More Precise Control of Gene Therapy

Apr. 28, 2025 To help achieve more precise control of gene therapy, engineers have designed a new control circuit that can keep gene expression levels within a target range. The method could be used to deliver ...

First Synthetic 'Mini Prion' Shows How Protein Misfolding Multiplies

Apr. 28, 2025 Prions transmit their abnormally folded shape onto other proteins. Researchers designed a synthetic fragment of the tau protein that exhibits prion-like behavior. Misfolded tau proteins are the ...

AI Helps Unravel a Cause of Alzheimer's Disease and Identify a Therapeutic Candidate

Apr. 25, 2025 A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease is actually a cause of it, due to its previously unknown secondary function that triggers a pathway that ...

AI Models of the Brain Could Serve as 'Digital Twins' in Research

Apr. 9, 2025 In a new study, researchers created an AI model of the mouse visual cortex that predicts neuronal responses to visual ...

Gene Therapy for Rare Epilepsy Shows Promise in Mice

Feb. 14, 2025 Recent research takes aim at the a variant in gene SCN1B, which causes a severe form of developmental epileptic ...

Simple Ways to Improve the Wellbeing of Pediatric Critical Care Staff

Jan. 28, 2025 Researchers have developed two simple, easy-to-deliver sessions to improve the wellbeing of staff in pediatric critical care (PCC) units in UK ...

Study Finds Surprising Way That Genetic Mutation Causes Huntington's Disease, Transforming Understanding of the Disorder

Jan. 16, 2025 Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause Huntington's disease leads to the death of brain cells. The findings change the ...

Fatal Neurodegenerative Disease in Kids Also Affects the Bowel

Jan. 15, 2025 Researchers have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition. In their latest study, a team showed that gene ...

Gene Editing Extends Lifespan in Mouse Model of Prion Disease

Jan. 14, 2025 Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses ...

Human 'Domainome' Reveals Root Cause of Heritable Disease

Jan. 8, 2025 Unstable proteins are the main drivers of many different heritable diseases, according to a new study, including genetic disorders responsible for the formation of cataracts, and different types of ...

Neurodegenerative Diseases: Membrane Anchor Suppresses Protein Aggregation

Jan. 6, 2025 Protein aggregation is typical of various neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases such as Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. A research team has now used new ...

Research on Neurodegeneration in Spider Brain Leads Neuroscientists to Groundbreaking New Discovery in Alzheimer's-Affected Human Brains

Dec. 3, 2024 What do spiders and Alzheimer's disease have in common? A team of researchers may have just uncovered the answer. Researchers from have made a groundbreaking connection between brain 'waste ...

Huntington's Disease Gene Also Enhances Early Brain Development and Intelligence, Study Finds

Nov. 13, 2024 The Huntington's disease (HD) mutation eventually causes a fatal brain disease in adulthood, but a new study finds that early in life, children with the HD mutation have bigger brains and higher ...

Researchers Solve Medical Mystery of Neurological Symptoms in Kids

Oct. 31, 2024 A team of doctors and scientists have identified the cause of a rare disorder involving intellectual disability and brain malformations. The team found a link between the child's neurological ...