Late menopause may help protect memory
Research from the University of London found that the age at which a woman starts menopause influences her memory performance later in life....
read moreSitting harms the brain, even if you exercise
A preliminary study has found that adults between ages 45 and 75 who did not have dementia had greater thinning of the medial temporal lobe if they spent more time sitting—even with high levels of physical activity....
read moreBlood test predicts autism with 92% accuracy
A new blood test created at the University of Warwick in the UK appears to diagnosis autism in young children with a 92% accuracy rate....
read moreAnti-cancer drug may improve social behavior in autism
Research published in the journal Nature Neuroscience indicates that romidepsin, a drug approved in the U.S. for the treatment of lymphoma, may reverse social impairments associated with autism....
read moreAdult brains make no new memory cells
Research from the University of California, San Francisco found that the human hippocampus stops making new cells in childhood....
read moreHigh cholesterol in late life may mean better brain health
Although subjects in a new study who were ages 75 to 84 and had high cholesterol than they did in midlife had a 50% higher risk of marked cognitive decline, the opposite was true for those ages 85 to...
read moreBoosting the brain’s immune cells may stop Alzheimer’s...
Two new studies published in the journal Neuron suggest that immune cells in the brain may help create future treatments for Alzheimer’s....
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