One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the clumping of proteins called Tau, which form tangled fibrils in the brain.

Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation.

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

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Astronauts' brains shift position after spaceflight, study in PNAS finds. Changes linked to time in space may impact health ...

Your brain and your politics go hand in hand. We all know someone —an uncle, a colleague, a childhood friend— who seems to ...

New research reveals memory loss with age follows a curved pattern, linked to widespread brain shrinkage rather than a single ...

New research indicates that the structural organization of the human brain does not develop in a continuous, linear fashion ...

A neuroscientist survey shows that 40 percent think it might be possible to preserve a human brain, potentially well enough ...

Exercise made 40-year-olds' brains look younger in 12 months, but the biological mystery remains: fitness gains didn't ...

New research shows that advances in technology could help make future supercomputers far more energy efficient. Neuromorphic computers are modeled after the structure of the human brain, and researche ...

A new international study has offered a clearer understanding of how age-related brain changes affect memory. Scientists have ...