Symptoms of young-onset dementia have considerable overlap with those common in certain mental health conditions, such as ...

While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

Children's mattresses may be giving off chemicals associated with damage to the brain, according to new research – a ...

Have you ever wondered why you don't have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren't ...

Ochre body paint may have been a form of prehistoric sunscreen that helped early humans survive a sudden increase in ...

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

We know sleep quality is vital for good health, that adolescence is an important time for brain development, and that teens ...

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found ...

There was an average of 6.9 years' worth of general health data for each participant included in the study. Participants had worn wrist accelerometers for seven days to estimate their physical ...

Adaptive deep brain stimulation was approved earlier this year by the US and European health authorities. It involves a computer interpreting brain activity and deciding whether to adjust the ...