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brain health

Readable reporting on memory, sleep, stress, learning, and the conditions that help a mind stay engaged.

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What helps the brain stay capable, curious, and well supported?

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    August 20, 2026 · Medical Xpress Healthy Aging

    Gray and white matter jointly shape cognitive aging, new evidence shows

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    August 20, 2026 · bioRxiv neuroscience, genetics, physiology

    Alzheimer’s and ageing dismantle the brain’s information topology

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    August 19, 2026 · Medical Xpress Healthy Aging

    AI brain age gap flags dementia risk years before symptoms

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    August 19, 2026 · Medical Xpress Healthy Aging

    Vitamin D and the aging brain: a signal worth decoding

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    August 16, 2026 · bioRxiv neuroscience, genetics, physiology

    β-Arrestin2: A Sex-Specific Molecular Switch in Alzheimer’s Pathology

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    August 13, 2026 · Medical Xpress Sleep

    Astrocytes: The Sleep Architects Rewiring Memory Circuits

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    August 12, 2026 · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

    Can a Nerve in Your Ear Wake the Unconscious Brain? The Biophysics of taVNS

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    August 12, 2026 · bioRxiv neuroscience, genetics, physiology

    Your Brain Syncs, Your Body Engages: New EEG Study Dissects Attention from Listening Immersion

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    August 12, 2026 · Medical Xpress Healthy Aging

    Sleep architecture as an early sentinel for Alzheimer’s risk

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    August 11, 2026 · Medical Xpress Neurology

    Senescent microglia secrete a protein that drives brain aging

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    August 9, 2026 · bioRxiv immunology and cell biology

    T-cell checkpoints: the immune dial that tunes brain resilience to amyloid

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    August 7, 2026 · ScienceDaily Top Health

    Your Brain’s Immune System Is Being Replaced—Starting at 50

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    August 5, 2026 · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

    Lifelong bilingualism preserved pre-attentive hearing discrimination with age

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    August 4, 2026 · Medical Xpress Healthy Aging

    An AI model charted how separate brain regions age at different rates

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    August 3, 2026 · bioRxiv neuroscience, genetics, physiology

    Cerebellar network timing supported episodic memory in older adults

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    August 3, 2026 · bioRxiv immunology and cell biology

    An experimental flu adjuvant sped early antibody quality in over-60s

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    August 3, 2026 · bioRxiv neuroscience, genetics, physiology

    In mice, briefly disrupting body-position sense caused navigation errors

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    August 3, 2026 · Spiral of Cellular Light companion guide

    The Luminous Mind framework treats brain health as a whole-system project

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    August 2, 2026 · The Guardian | Alternative medicine

    A scan of 558 herbal remedy books found 82% likely AI-written

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    August 2, 2026 · The Guardian | Alternative medicine

    Indigenous voices on the cost of commodified plant medicine

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    August 2, 2026 · ScienceDaily Healthy Aging

    Across 214,000 older adults, dementia risk factors varied by country

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    August 2, 2026 · ScienceDaily Healthy Aging

    A microglial switch may separate who declines from who stays sharp

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    August 2, 2026 · ScienceDaily Healthy Aging

    A brain waste-clearance gene altered how much poor sleep costs

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    August 2, 2026 · ScienceDaily Healthy Aging

    In mice, removing brain immune cells restored two hours of sleep

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    August 2, 2026 · ScienceDaily Healthy Aging

    APOE2 neurons showed less DNA damage and better repair

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    August 2, 2026 · ScienceDaily Healthy Aging

    In 1,700 adults, frequent midlife TV tracked smaller memory regions

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    August 2, 2026 · Medical Xpress Healthy Aging

    Choroid plexus MRI measures tracked later dementia risk

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    August 2, 2026 · ScienceDaily Healthy Aging

    A sleep EEG ‘brain age’ score tracked future dementia risk

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    August 2, 2026 · Medical Xpress Healthy Aging

    Work stress tracked persistent sleep problems in 70% of over-50s

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    August 2, 2026 · Medical Xpress Sleep

    More evidence tied physical activity to lower dementia risk

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