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A team of neurologists at Third Military Medical University, in China, has found that transplanting stem cells from the bone marrow of young mice into…
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The felt age of spousal caregivers is connected to the felt age of their loved ones living with dementia, according to a study from the…
People who experience prolonged depressive symptoms starting in young adulthood may have worse thinking and memory skills in middle age, according to a study published…
People who give birth to infants less than 5.5 pounds may be more likely to have memory and thinking problems later in life than people…
A new review paper was published in Aging titled “Peripheral vascular dysfunction and the aging brain.”