Stroke and dementia as well as late-life depression are more common in people who have a biomarker of aging called short ...

Sleep disorders may lead to structural brain changes, cognitive decline, and neurological disease. Here’s what science says about the risk.

Scientists from Mass General Brigham explored the associations between telomere length-which decreases as a person ages or is ...

During Tuesday’s episode of The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, Stern, 71, said Joel, 76, was “doing fine” following their ...

Billy Joel is sharing a message with fans for the first time since revealing he was diagnosed with a rare brain condition.

More than a billion people around the world suffer from mental disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, Huntington’s, epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety. Brain diseases cost the ...

Researchers may have found a new way to target the sources of certain brain disorders. In a study led by scientists at Mass General Brigham, deep brain stimulation (DBS) was able to pinpoint ...

A team of researchers has developed a new way to study how genes may cause autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: by growing tiny brain-like structures in the lab and tweaking their DNA.

But exactly how they contribute is an open question—one that Allen’s group has tried to answer by analyzing astrocytes from the brain cells of mice with various disorders. Through a ...