Researchers found that a good night’s sleep may help the brain clear proteins tied to Alzheimer’s.

Imagine decluttering your brain. Tidying it a bit to get rid of things that are damaging your brain. Is it even possible? Well, yes! You can tidy up your brain and even manage progressive ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT study reveals how sleep deprivation causes your brain to flush itself clean while you’re awake, disrupting focus and ...

These cells act like cleaners. They remove waste, broken proteins, and old cell parts so that the brain can continue working properly. However, new research suggests that this helpful cleaning process ...

You check into a hotel and toss and turn all night, but your sleep improves the following night. Scientists at Nagoya University wanted to understand why this happens. Working with mice, they have ...

Oxidative stress is a direct consequence of an excess in the body of so-called free radicals—reactive, unstable molecules that contain oxygen. Free radicals are normal metabolic by-products and also ...

Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different environments—whether it's swimming in a lake or walking a path—without ...