For years, researchers have been building an ever-longer list of dementia risk factors: poor diet, lack of exercise, social isolation, air pollution, untreated hearing loss, diabetes, high blood ...

Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) saves lives by treating cancer that has spread to the brain, but it also causes long-standing brain damage. Many patients who go through radiation treatment later ...

A new study led by a team from the University of Ottawa takes a major step forward in understanding how a heart attack can dramatically reshape brain function and trigger neurological effects, from ...

Earlier this week, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a human trial for a blueberry-sized brain ...

The Psychological Trap: Individuals recovering from a heart attack experience depression and anxiety at a rate up to three times higher than the general population. Alarmingly, cardiac patients who ...

Study found that a toxic molecule called methylglyoxal rises after a heart attack and travels to the brain, where it triggers ...

A myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack, doesn't just damage the cardiovascular system—it can dramatically reshape how ...

Alzheimer’s disease and late-life depression produce markedly different patterns of brain shrinkage and chemical disruption, ...

Rick Springfield recently opened up about a brain injury he sustained from a fall at a Las Vegas concert in 2000 that left him brain-damaged. Springfield, 75, recently had a whole body MRI scan that ...