Five distinct ages of the human brain have been identified. Four major turning points - around age nine, 32, 66 and 83 - create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human lifespan, ...

Share on Pinterest An experimental brain scan may be able to accurately predict a person’s risk of age-related disorders. Image credit: Rafe Swan/Getty Images. People age at different rates, partly ...

The difference between the brain's predicted age and actual chronological age, called a brain age gap, may influence the relationship between cognitive impairment risk factors, like high blood ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The candles on your birthday cake don't tell the whole story. As anyone who ever attended a high-school reunion can tell you, some people age faster than others. Whoever put the candles on your cake ...

Brain performance can be optimized across the entire lifespan through daily micro-habits and targeted strategies.

A representative MRI tractography image of the first era of the human brain. This image is representative of the general pattern seen across the brains in the study during the first era of neural ...