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New research shows how practice helps the brain reorganize itself to overcome multitasking bottlenecks and improve cognitive efficiency.

Practice helps the brain separate tasks and improve multitasking ability

Eating more ultra-processed foods is linked to a significantly higher risk of prostate cancer in men.

Eating more ultra-processed foods may raise prostate cancer risk by 30%

Hibernating mice lose and regrow memory connections, revealing how key brain hubs help memories survive the winter.

How memories may survive hibernation

A new study shows that your ability to sense internal body signals does not predict your mental health.

Internal body awareness does not predict mental health, study finds

Common medications like antidepressants and beta-blockers can alter your gut microbiome for years after you stop taking them.

Common medications may change your gut for years

Personalized brain stimulation based on mapping can provide lasting relief for people suffering from chronic pain.

Personalized brain stimulation can ease chronic pain

AI-designed molecules could offer a promising new way to treat neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

AI-designed “intrabodies” could unlock new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and MND

Suffering a urinary tract infection after a brain injury may worsen cognitive difficulties, highlighting a body-brain connection.

Bladder infection after brain injury worsens cognitive problems, finds study

Imagery-based therapy that helps rewrite childhood memories may reduce fear of failure and lower stress in adulthood.

A therapy that “rewrites” childhood memories can ease fear of failure

Brain imaging shows that music stimulates regions associated with imagination and meaning, much like a spoken story.

Music evokes story-like brain activity beyond auditory processing, brain imaging shows

While popular in fiction, true photographic memories do not exist, and forgetting is actually beneficial for our brains.

A photographic memory is wishful thinking

Liver injuries from medication and supplement overdoses have skyrocketed by nearly 400 percent since 2000.

Poison center reports of liver injuries rise nearly 400% since 2000, with acetaminophen as a top driver

Estrogen-only hormone therapy is linked to fewer signs of Alzheimer's disease in the brains of older women.

Estrogen therapy is linked to fewer signs of Alzheimer’s in the brain

Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic may reduce cravings by targeting a specific control center in the brain.

Ozempic may have revealed the brain’s hidden “craving center”

Sleeping in a new place is often difficult due to a common phenomenon known as the first-night effect.

Have trouble sleeping in a new place? Most do because of the first-night effect

A new experimental GLP-1 pill helps people with obesity lose up to twelve percent of their body weight.

New GLP-1 pill delivers up to 12% weight loss in 36 weeks

Our ancestors' sweet tooth for fruits and honey may have helped fuel brain growth throughout human evolution.

Sugar may have been a key ingredient in human evolution

A prescription THC medication successfully eliminated PTSD nightmares for over a third of patients in a new study.

THC medication made PTSD nightmares disappear for more than a third of patients

Consuming high amounts of protein could actually accelerate aging in people who live a sedentary lifestyle.

The protein craze may not be for everyone

Pupil dilation during surprise is a neurological reaction that helps the brain adapt to unexpected new information.

Why do people's pupils dilate when they're surprised? Researchers explain

Your brain may be biologically wired to regain lost weight by increasing hunger and slowing down energy use.

Your brain may be wired to regain lost weight

An Alzheimer's disease protein marker could help doctors detect CTE in living athletes and contact sports players.

To detect CTE while alive, a test for another brain disease may help

Governments are being urged to implement healthier food policies in public spaces to curb preventable diseases.

Are governments hungry to make healthy food retail policies stick?

Combining increased potassium intake with reduced sodium may be a highly effective way to control high blood pressure.

New strategy for controlling hypertension: Should boosting potassium be part of efforts to control high blood pressure?

Taking a daily multivitamin could help older adults maintain the strength and stamina needed to stay independent.

Daily multivitamin may help older adults stay independent

A newly identified brain fluid structure could help detect dementia risk years before symptoms emerge.

Brain fluid structure may flag future dementia risk years before diagnosis

Dreams are not random noise but a way your brain actively blends memories and emotions during sleep.

Your dreams aren’t random. Your brain is rewriting reality

Motor coordination issues and slowing can predict the onset of psychological disorders.

Motor abnormalities predict mental illness in both general and specific symptoms

Younger adults should not ignore colorectal cancer warning signs like persistent bowel changes and unexplained weight loss.

Colorectal cancer warning signs younger adults should never ignore

Researchers have found genetic clues that could lead to therapies that stop Huntington's disease before neurological damage occurs.

Genes offer new clues to stopping Huntington’s disease in its tracks

A study using dogs suggests that motherhood might actually reduce late-life frailty instead of accelerating biological aging.

Motherhood may reduce late-life frailty rather than raise it, companion dog model suggests

Scientists restored two hours of sleep in mice with Alzheimer's by targeting overactive immune cells in the brain.

Alzheimer’s breakthrough: Scientists restore two hours of sleep without clearing brain plaques

A new immune therapy for Alzheimer's disease has shown positive results in a Phase I clinical trial.

Immune therapy for Alzheimer's takes a step forward: Phase I trial reports positive results

Researchers have discovered how a common gut bacterium damages the colon, potentially paving the way for new cancer therapies.

Scientists finally solved how a common gut bacterium triggers colon cancer

An experimental drug shows promise by lowering tau levels in the brain and slowing memory loss in clinical trials.

A new sort of Alzheimer’s drug shows glimmers of promise

Unpaid family caregivers shoulder more of the financial burden for dementia care than formal healthcare systems in Europe.

Unpaid caregivers shoulder more dementia costs than health systems in high-income Europe

Exercise rewires the nerves regulating your heart, offering a potential new way to treat common cardiac conditions like arrhythmias.

Exercise doesn't just strengthen the heart. It rewires it

Researchers found no innate motor skill advantage for lefties or righties, proving that practice is what truly matters.

Whether lefty or righty, practice makes the difference

Cognitive neuroscientists discover that language is not required for logical reasoning and human thought.

Evidence reveals that the language of thought is not natural language

Vitamin A signals help transform retina cells to develop sharp central vision before birth.

A vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision

Researchers have discovered a potential new treatment that targets the underlying cause of Parkinson's disease.

Researchers discover potential new treatment for Parkinson's disease, other neurodegenerative conditions

Scientists have identified a molecular switch that explains how exercise keeps aging muscles healthy and strong.

Scientists discover why exercise reverses muscle aging

A loss of your sense of smell could be an early warning sign of underlying brain health issues.

When the ability to smell goes away

A surprising discovery about cerebellar cells is forcing scientists to rethink how movement disorders develop and are treated.

A surprising brain discovery is forcing scientists to rethink movement disorders

The BCG vaccine may help protect against Alzheimer's disease by reshaping the brain's immune environment.

BCG vaccine may rewire brain immunity, shift Alzheimer's markers over 12 months

Researchers have discovered how toxic proteins spread through the brain in Alzheimer's disease, opening new doors for treatment.

Scientists may have finally found how Alzheimer's spreads through the brain

Developing brain cells in mice intentionally break and quickly repair their own DNA to grow properly.

Brains break and repair DNA to grow

A new T-cell immunotherapy shows early promise in improving survival rates for children with deadly brain tumors.

New T‑cell therapy targets three tumor proteins, shows early survival gains in aggressive pediatric brain cancers

A newly identified species of gut bacteria may help ease anxiety and irritable bowel syndrome symptoms.

A species of gut bacteria could ease anxiety and diarrhea-predominant IBS

Silent bone loss from osteopenia affects millions, but exercise and nutrition can help protect your skeletal health.

Osteopenia is silently weakening bones in millions of people