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 ...

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 ...

Even without infection, the COVID-19 pandemic aged our brains. A new study found that accompanying stressors like isolation and uncertainty accelerated brain aging, especially in men, older adults, ...

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only the virus but also the prolonged period of stress, isolation, loss, and ...

The difference between the brain's predicted age and actual chronological age, called a brain age gap, may influence the relationship between cognitive impairment risk factors, like high blood ...

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 ...

Insights from a Duke staff member and neurologist on ways to support cognitive health, plus a crossword puzzle to try Several times a week, Ginger Newbold rises at 5:30 a.m. to lift weights and walk ...

An unexpected trio — green tea, walnuts and a tiny aquatic plant called Mankai — might help keep the brain young, new research suggests. In an 18-month randomized trial of nearly 300 adults, a ...