Healthy brains may be built through a process of controlled damage and rapid repair. The most dangerous type of DNA damage is a regular feature of healthy early brain development, experiments in mice ...

At 50, your passport insists you are ageing, yet some over-70s bound up station stairs as if time forgot them. New University of Florida research links six gentle daily habits to brains that look ...

For most of us, it has been years since we held a number two pencil or tried to solve a math equation, but dozens of social media users are dusting off their arithmetic skills to solve a 'simple' ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Even some young people now regard age 25 as a turning point with seemingly magical properties. In one ...

Alzheimer’s isn’t just one problem—it’s a tangled mix of biology, aging, and overall health. That’s why drugs targeting a single factor have fallen short, even as new treatments show modest benefits.

With its focus on marmosets, Japan’s national brain initiative has been generating invaluable data for unlocking the mysteries of our minds. At the heart of Japan’s national brain initiative, the ...