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 ...

Two years after Colorado passed a first-in-the-nation law to ensure our private thoughts remain private, Congress is now following suit. A bill in the U.S. Senate aims to protect our neural data or ...

Using polysomnography, researchers found that the difference between a person’s brain age and their chronological age may influence their dementia risk. Image credit: A.J. Schokora/Stocksy A recent ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...

A landmark research paper for the first time maps the genetics of how individual regions of the brain age—and why some of those regions are the very ones most ravaged by Alzheimer's and dementia.