Stress may be causing impaired memory and brain shrinkage in middle-age adults, even before symptoms of Alzheimer’s or other dementia begin, according to a new study. [read more]

Men who lack resilience are exponentially more vulnerable to becoming severely depressed after their spouse dies, according to a new study. Original source: [read more]

A research team has discovered a combination of drugs that increases healthy lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans. The team administered combinations compounds targeting [read more]

Pioneering research into the mechanisms controlling gene activity in the brain could hold the key to understanding Alzheimer’s disease and might help identify effective [read more]

By studying the effect of genetic variations on lifespan across the human genome, researchers have devised a way to estimate whether an individual can expect to live longer [read more]