Researchers identified a gene that seems to help slow brain aging in women, and studied links between hormone therapy, menopause and Alzheimer’s. By Gina Kolata Women’s brains are superior to ...

Johannes has a MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London and serves as the Managing Director at IFLScience. According to the authors of the study, it starts at around the age of 44, with ...

The most comprehensive model of the brain’s metabolism, incorporating more than 16,800 biochemical interactions, has ...

Then they measured gene expression in the hippocampus—a key brain region for learning and memory that deteriorates during aging—in 20-month-old female mice, which were akin to 65-year-old humans.