Age-related brain atrophy, the gradual loss of neurons and shrinkage of brain tissue, is a natural part of aging, which can ...

Ageing is associated with progressive mental decline . This is due to loss of brain volume and inadequate generation of new neurons (nerve cells) .

Most people understand the positive effect exercise has on the body, but how exercise effects the brain is less understood. With an estimated one million Canadians expected to be living with some form ...

One of the areas most sensitive to the effects of stress is the hippocampus ... where an absence of care resulted in brain atrophy and cognitive deficits. Different types of adversity can also ...

LATE-NC diagnostic criteria improve differentiation from Alzheimer's, addressing challenges in memory-loss syndromes and guiding therapeutic interventions.

PEOPLE often think of Alzheimer’s when they think of dementia. It’s the most common type of dementia, accounting for 60-80 ...

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 1 in 6 people worldwide are living with a neurological disorder. In the ...

New guidelines will help doctors identify patients with a common memory-loss syndrome that is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease in older adults. The diagnostic criteria for limbic-predominant ...

and hippocampal volume ). The 2024 BETTER Aging study nicely expanded on those results through imaging, by showing not just gains in cognitive performance but also better maintenance of brain ...

Brain resilience is the process that mitigates ... A negative relationship was observed between changes in memory control and hippocampal atrophy. Improvements in reactive control were associated ...

The brain atrophy is also most pronounced in the same areas of the ... DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53548-z Small et al. 'Imaging hippocampal function across the human life span: is memory decline normal ...