A large new study shows that poor sleep habits may make the brain look physically older than about a year on average. For the study, researchers examined brain scans and sleep patterns of more than 27 ...

The way our brain ages isn’t similar to how the body does. Gray hair and wrinkles are easily spotted, but the changes inside ...

What’s the big idea? The time to start working on positive mental health outcomes should not be when a mental health crisis begins. In a country that has an epidemic of loneliness and rising ...

Getting older is inevitable — but illness doesn’t have to be. Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool that can measure how fast a person is aging and predict their future risk of chronic ...

Dr. Vassily Eliopoulos warns about early brain aging. Neurodegeneration starts decades before old age. Mental fatigue, ...

Poor sleep accelerates brain ageing and making it appear older than it actually is, researchers have found. Sleep helps to ...

Imagine walking into a doctor’s office at 45 and getting a single brain scan that tells you not just how old your brain is, but how quickly your entire body will age over the next decades. This isn’t ...

Struggling with restless nights may be doing more than leaving you drained the next day, it could be making your brain physically older.

The study revealed that sleep offers protective benefits for your brain. Those who don't sleep well or enough may be at risk of a prematurely aged brain, faster than the rest of their bodies. Sleep ...

Traditional brain scans only show part of the picture. They can’t fully capture how different regions of the brain communicate—an essential factor in detecting neurological diseases early. Dr. Rahul ...

Having kids is hard, regardless of their gender, age or personality. But, if you’ve ever wondered if some kids may make parenting harder than others, you’re onto something. A study uncovered just how ...