Navigation system helps diagnose, monitor and train patients with cognitive decline.

A new study is the first to show that while the impact of life’s stressors accumulate over time and accelerate cellular aging, these negative effects may be reduced by maintaining a healthy diet, exercising and sleeping well.

Cognitive impairment may have more to do with such factors as socioeconomic status and less to do with race or ethnicity.

Researchers find that oxytocin — a hormone associated with maternal nurturing, social attachments, childbirth and sex — is indispensable for healthy muscle maintenance and repair.

Researchers have erased and reactivated memories in rats, profoundly altering the animals’ reaction to past events; development may bolster Alzheimer's research.

A common form of a gene already associated with longevity also improves learning and memory.

Study shows cognitive improvements in old mice when connected to the circulatory system of younger rodents.

Early signs of neurodegenerative ailment, normally not detected till middle age, now can be seen in adults as young as 30.

Doctors should focus on life expectancy when deciding whether to order mammograms for their oldest female patients.

New research suggests that it's greater muscle mass — not a good body mass index — that makes older Americans less likely to die prematurely.

Participants in UC Irvine’s Orange County Aging Study took part in breakthrough research project.

In California, older adults are paying a steep price for housing their boomerang kids.