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A major international study has uncovered a new biological clue that could help predict dementia long before memory problems arise. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Zhejiang University ...

When you’re short on sleep and your focus suddenly drifts, your brain may be briefly slipping into cleanup mode. Scientists ...

Glioblastoma—the most aggressive form of brain cancer—remains one of medicine's biggest challenges. Despite surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, most patients survive only about a year after ...

A new study by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sheds light on how lack of sleep affects the ...

"Your brain's fluid system is trying to restore function by pushing the brain to iterate between high-attention and high-flow states." A cascade of bodily changes accompanies attention lapses in sleep ...

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate. Encased in the skull, perched atop the spine, the brain has a ...

JOHNSTON COUNTY, N.C. -- Last Thanksgiving was ruined for Greg Phillpotts and his family after the unexpected. Fluid from his nose ran into the food. "I was preparing a meal and standing in the ...

Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in or around the brain. They can be primary (originating in the brain) or ...