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Unlike subcutaneous fat that lies just beneath our skin, visceral fat accumulates around our internal abdominal organs, ...

Through studies on rats, a team of researchers at Penn State has pinpointed the exact moment of loss of consciousness due to anesthesia, mapping what happens in different brain regions during that ...

Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia — it causes memory loss, confusion, thinking problems and behavioral changes.

Astrocytes — named for their star-like shape — are a type of brain cell as abundant as neurons in the central nervous system, ...

Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

Life with cats is definitely an interesting one. Don’t get me wrong, it’s certainly more positive than it is negative. But it is hard to describe whatever this is. By this, we mean cats doing ...

New research shows that not all brain cells age equally, with certain cells, such as those in the hypothalamus, experiencing ...

A new study has uncovered a surprising link between Alzheimer’s disease and Herpes Simplex Virus-1 (HSV-1). Researchers found ...