Older adults who remain cognitively sharp as they age have a genetic advantage over their peers, new research shows. Scientists at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago found that ...

Some people in their 80s have memories as sharp as those of people decades younger.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large-scale study of 18,000 study participants showed that people with two genetic variants of the APOE gene tend to have fewer ...

My grandmother Leontina, who recently turned 100, still lives independently and remembers the birthday of everybody in her ...

Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in whom the ability wanes, finds a study published today in Nature. The authors ...

Aging frightens most people. The ancients personified it as a ghostly figure. The Greeks called him Geras, a bent and shriveled spirit trailing behind the strong gods of Olympus. To grow old was to be ...

Adults over 80 who score as well on memory tests as people decades younger are not simply lucky. A new study published in Nature finds that these individuals, known as super-agers, generate at least ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in whom ...

A large-scale study of 18,000 study participants showed that people with two genetic variants of the APOE gene tend to have fewer diagnoses of Alzheimer’s disease. Super agers are loosely defined as ...

View post: National Weather Service Warns of ‘Dangerous’ Heat Wave Set to Shatter Records APOE2 and APOE3 gene variants linked to lower Alzheimer’s risk, study finds. Only 1,623 of 18,000 participants ...