Veteran ecologist Madhav Gadgil passes away in Pune after a brief illness. Experts explain why health issues worsen in the ...

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Around 10 percent of the U.S. adult population — over 25 million Americans — experience some form of tinnitus.

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Natalie Rowe, a 42-year-old web designer living in the United Kingdom, noticed she felt a little bit like she was losing her ...

Mongolian shamans beat wicker drums to summon ancestral spirits. A Peruvian man in a headdress unleashes a piercing ululation. And a man from Kentucky tells me the body can rid itself of cancer if you ...

Large studies encompassing thousands of people have since shown that following the MIND diet corresponds with better ...

Welcome back! For Day 4 of the challenge, let’s do a short and fun activity based around a concept called cognitive reserve.

Scientists crunched 20 years of data on 30,000 older adults and discovered a surprising action that helps your brain stay ...

As global populations age—particularly in low- and middle-income countries—the prevalence of dementia and cognitive ...

New cases of dementia are estimated to double by 2060, but the good news is that about 45 percent of those cases may be ...

Everybody worries about cognitive decline as they age. Some changes are natural and to be expected, but more severe cases can ...