Neuroscience

That burger and fries you loved as a kid may have done more than add calories — it could have permanently changed how your brain responds to food. New research shows high-fat, high-sugar diets in childhood rewire the brain in ways that last into adulthood. Scientists fed young mice a «Western diet» high in fat […]

What if memory loss wasn’t caused by dying brain cells, but by exhausted ones? Researchers have shown — for the first time — that malfunctioning mitochondria directly cause cognitive decline, and that fixing them can reverse memory loss. Mitochondria are the power plants inside every cell. In neurons — which consume enormous amounts of energy