On the flip side, constant consumption of high-fat junk food can harm the brain’s ability to process memory, potentially ...

Your favourite fried foods might be doing more than clogging arteries—scientists say they could be ruining your memory.

A high-fat diet quickly disrupts neurons tied to memory, but restoring glucose or dietary changes can repair the damage. These findings may guide strategies to reduce dementia risk. Diet impacts the ...

A weekend of burgers, fries and hot dogs will probably have you thinking more about your waistline than your brain, but a new ...

Reported in Neuron, the results lay the foundations for new interventions, treatments, and therapies that could potentially protect your mind in the short- and long-term, reducing your risk of ...

Love to binge on cheeseburgers and fries? Beware, just four days of these fatty foods can rewire the brain’s memory hub -- ...

Estimates suggest that these key cells, known as inhibitory interneurons, make up some 25% to 50% of the neurons in the adult cortex, the wrinkled tissue that covers the surface of the brain. In fact, ...

A new study from UNC School of Medicine researchers, published this week in Neuron, reveals a unique look at how junk food rewires the brain's memory hub—leading to risk of cognitive dysfunction. This ...

Memory, a fundamental tool for our survival, is closely linked with how we encode, recall, and respond to external stimuli. Over the past decade, extensive research has focused on memory-encoding ...

Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have developed a first-of-its-kind roadmap detailing how stem cells become sensory interneurons - ...