You can use up all the storage on your phone or max out your computer's drive, but can you use up all the memory space in your brain? Despite how you might feel before an exam or after a sleepless ...

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

To complete tasks that require storing relevant visual details for short periods of time, such as solving a puzzle, reading or comparing different objects, humans leverage their so-called visual ...

Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...

An international team led by Jaime de Juan-Sanz at the Paris Brain Institute has shown that slightly increasing the metabolic capacity of neurons can enhance long-term memory in both fruit flies and ...

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than 7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, a disease that is a form ...

A survey has proven that 1 in 4 adults is dependent on brain supplements to make their memory sharper. Here is what the ...

Older adults who remain cognitively sharp as they age have a genetic advantage over their peers, new research shows.Scientists at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago found that so-c ...