But new research reveals our advantageous smarts come at a cost: a much greater susceptibility to brain decay. Heinrich Heine ...

Scientists have identified an enzyme that may play a crucial role in triggering Huntington's disease, a rare and deadly disorder that causes brain cells to decay. New research in rodents and ...

Individual differences in the quality of cognitive and brain function in old age suggest that deterioration and decay are neither ubiquitous nor inevitable characteristics of ageing. This begs the ...