Age-related memory loss and cognitive decline are increasingly prevalent in our rapidly aging population. However, some “SuperAgers” seem to escape developing these deficits–but how? Studying the brains of SuperAgers is helping neuroscientists learn even more about our brains and how they age.
The brain on menopause
Pushing back the stigma to uncover what really happens in the brain during and after menopause.
Can we prevent memory loss?
Scientists may have found a way to prevent age-related memory loss.
Can intermittent fasting change how we age?
By engaging a cell-breakdown process called autophagy, fasting can clear more than the belly.
It’s in the blood
How scientists transferred the cognitive benefits of exercise to aged mice…without having to work out
A Punch in the Gut
Parkinson’s disease and the GI tract have more in common than you might think