(Hill Street Studios/Digital Vision/Getty Images) As we get older, our episodic memory – managed by the hippocampus region – ...

Older-appearing speech was associated with MRI and DNA aging markers, but the tool cannot yet predict future dementia.

The aging brain has a reputation problem. We tend to measure it by what becomes harder: how quickly it learns, how precisely ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study shows how aging immune cells fail to clear dead white blood cells, driving inflammation and aging. The researchers identified a receptor ...

In her recent TED talk, Chimamanda Adichie describes “The Danger of a Single Story” (you can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg). She ...