People with higher levels of abdominal body fat are at greater risk of having brain atrophy with aging, according to an international study that included a team of clinical researchers from Providence ...

New research provides strong evidence of an association between abdominal fat and reduced brain volumes, particularly those involved with cognitive function. In large study of healthy middle-aged ...

This figure shows two examples of whole body MRI in MRI images of two women, one with a high level of both visceral fat and subcutaneous fat (left) and one, a normal amount of these types of fat.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Aging, researchers investigated how past infections relate to brain volume changes and dementia risk. Prior diagnoses of severe infections are ...