Inflammation in former football players was tied to limbic white matter damage and worse memory, revealing a potential pathway linking repetitive head impacts to later cognitive decline.

New criteria were proposed for a syndrome that mimics the clinical features of Alzheimer's disease. Researchers called this disorder limbic-predominant amnestic neurodegenerative syndrome (LANS).

Your brain is not one integrated system. Conscious thoughts, the words that go through your head, occur primarily in your cortex, which is the outer six layers of brain cells. It also processes the ...