As many as one quarter of all adults over the age of 60 experience age-related cognitive decline. This cognitive decline may be due to many factors, such as problems with sleep, the loss of neurons, ...

The cerebrospinal fluid from young mice is awash with factors that keep the brain sharp. Now, scientists led by Tony Wyss-Coray at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, report that when ...

Although a healthy diet and optimal exercise can slow the progression of aging associated cognitive decline, neurodegenerative disease and dementia, there are currently no therapies to reverse these ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. A team at Stanford University has ...

A. The drawing shows intracranial upstream lymphatic regions #1, #2, and #3 that drain through the nasopharyngeal lymphatic plexus (NPLP) en route to medial deep cervical lymphatics and deep cervical ...

For a human, one of the first signs someone is getting old is the inability to remember little things; maybe they misplace their keys, or get lost on an oft-taken route. For a laboratory mouse, it’s ...

There's a new animal model of AD in town, and it’s not a worm, fly, or rodent. It’s a wee little pig. As described in their paper published September 20 in Cell Reports Medicine, researchers led by ...

Age-related cognitive decline affects up to one-quarter of adults over the age of sixty 1. A healthy diet and regular exercise can help to prevent this decline, but as yet there are no treatments to ...