A clinical neuropsychologist, Naismith directs the Healthy Brain Ageing Program at the Brain and Mind Centre, where she leads ...

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 ...

Your birth certificate might say you're 65 years old but your brain can still remain far younger or older, maybe of 55 or 70s. Maybe it's how you treat yourself determind age of your brain. Recently ...

As you age, you gradually lose muscle mass and gain visceral body fat, a type of fat deep inside your body that surrounds your heart, kidneys and other organs. Now, scientists say the ratio of ...

Mass General Brigham researchers are betting that the next big leap in brain medicine will come from teaching artificial intelligence to “read” MRI scans in a more flexible way. The team, led by ...

The brain's 'garbage disposal' system falters with age, a new study finds, with long-lived neurons offloading clumpy, old proteins onto other brain cells. Many of those proteins are involved in brain ...