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The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

New research shows how some brain cells fight tau buildup in Alzheimer’s, pointing to internal systems that help neurons survive longer.

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Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and we're starting to ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Alzheimer’s may destroy memory by flipping a single molecular switch that tells neurons to prune their own connections. Researchers found that both amyloid beta and inflammation converge on the same ...

Stressed brain cells can survive longer by slowing sugar use, revealing a short-term protective response that later turns ...

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that ...

A study on mice identified a group of neurons in the central amygdala region of the brain that display a unique pattern of ...

A heart attack activates stress circuits in the brain that evolved for survival but can amplify inflammation, disrupt healing ...

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