Health experts have identified two subtle signs that could potentially indicate the early onset of dementia. These seemingly minor symptoms can gradually develop over time and may be indicative of a ...

If the neurologist Dr. Daniel Lesley sees 10 patients a day, at least half ask him the same question: Are the brain lapses they’re experiencing a normal part of ...

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...

That bottle of pills in the medicine cabinet might be helping one health problem while quietly creating another. Millions of Americans take prescription medications daily without realizing these drugs ...

Heads up: A lot of what you think you know about your brain is wrong. From sleep scams to multitasking myths, bad advice is steering Americans off course — and it’s messing with their minds. To cut ...

Just a few days of eating a diet high in saturated fat could be enough to cause memory problems and related brain inflammation in older adults, a new study in rats suggests. Researchers fed separate ...

Ashley Wong, PharmD, is an experienced pharmacist and medical writer who translates medical and drug information into easily digestible language. Effect on memory: Benzodiazepines are known to affect ...