Seven hours is the ideal amount of sleep for people in their middle age and upwards, with too little or too much little sleep associated with poorer cognitive

Girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during their adolescence, say an international team of

Researchers have identified a link which suggests that lithium could decrease the risk of developing dementia, which affects nearly one million people in the

Neurosurgery experts from Cambridge have led the largest ever study examining the surgical management of traumatic brain injuries, highlighting regional

The criminal justice system (CJS) is failing autistic people, argue researchers at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, after a survey of

Long-term use of implantable electronic medical devices – such as pacemakers and cochlear implants – is hampered by the body’s reaction to foreign bodies. Now,

People with dementia struggle to adapt to changes in their environment because of damage to areas of the brain known as ‘multiple demand networks’,

Mathematical model could help in physical therapy and shed light on learning more generally. 

For the first time, researchers have used human data to quantify the speed of different processes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease and found that it develops

Cambridge researchers have developed ‘mini brains’ that allow them to study a fatal and untreatable neurological disorder causing paralysis and dementia – and