STANFORD, Calif. — A simple blood test might soon reveal whether your brain functions like a 30-year-old’s or a 70-year-old’s — and whether you’re likely to live a long, healthy life or face an early ...

Dan Jones liked his job as a quality-control inspector and loved his hobby even more: playing in a local bagpipe band. Then he started making mistakes in the pieces he played. He found himself having ...

New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network ...

Brain aging occurs in distinctive phases. Its trajectory could be hidden in our blood—paving the way for early diagnosis and intervention. A new study published in Nature Aging analyzed brain imaging ...

Your brain doesn’t lose nerve cells as it ages nearly as much as we used to think. According to research by Dr. Morrison and colleagues at Mt. Sinai Medical School, earlier estimates that up to1% of ...

We know quality sleep is good for our overall health, but new research is pointing to its importance for brain health too. In the study, published Wednesday in online journal Neurology, researchers ...

Poor sleep in early midlife was associated with faster brain aging on MRI. Sleep quality at age 40 appeared to predict brain age 15 years later. People with more than three poor sleep characteristics ...

Looking after our brain health is as important as taking care of our body. Dr Manan Vora recommended taking a quick 10-second ...