Ageing is a universal experience, yet its pace and impact differ dramatically between people. While medicine has helped us live longer, questions remain about what truly governs the length of our healthspan—the years lived...
One of the key challenges in Alzheimer’s research is identifying the very first events that set the disease in motion, long before memory loss or other symptoms become clear. A recent Nature study points...
Endocrine regulation is increasingly recognised as a central determinant of brain ageing and vulnerability to neurodegenerative disease. Recent Mendelian randomisation analyses published in Scientific Reports have demonstrated that thyroid function exerts causal effects on...
As a neuroscientist in training, I am constantly struck by the complexity of the brain and the challenges of studying it. Few conditions illustrate this more clearly than Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which continues to...
