Why middle age is becoming a breaking point in the U.S.
For many Americans, middle age is becoming more challenging than it was for previous generations. People born in the 1960s and early 19...
New fentanyl vaccine blocks deadly overdoses before they start
Fentanyl has become one of the deadliest drugs in the United States. Each year, fentanyl and related synthetic opioids are responsible ...
A hidden gene finally explains this rare neurological disorder
Even with today's advanced DNA sequencing technologies, the underlying genetic causes of many rare movement disorders remain unknown. R...
Why grandparents matter more than ever for children’s mental health
Kenneth Barish, Ph.D., Clinical Professor of Psychology at Weill Cornell Medicine, says the decline of extended family ...
Learning a musical instrument in your 70s could help protect memory
Living longer often comes with changes in cognitive abilities, and working memory is among the mental skills most vulnerable to age rel...
Your brain can keep improving into your 90s, study finds
A new three-year study from researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for BrainHealth (CBH) suggests that getting older ...
Scientists discover a surprising cancer link to Alzheimer’s disease
As people grow older, their cells steadily pick up new genetic mutations. A study from Boston Children's Hospital, published in Cell, h...
Social determinants of health and epigenetic clocks: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 140 studies
Descriptive resultsFigure 1 presents the workflow of our analysis. Our final meta-analytic dataset consisted of ...
Scientists mapped every neural connection in a fruit fly and found a surprise
A large international research team led by groups at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has reached a major neuroscience m...
