The holidays are full of delicious and indulgent food and drinks. It’s hard to resist dreaming about cookies, specialty cakes, rich meats and super saucy side dishes.

Lots of the healthy raw ingredients used in holiday foods can end up overshadowed by sugar and starch. While adding extra sugar may be tasty, it’s not necessarily good for metabolism. Understanding the food and culinary science behind what you’re cooking...

A brain region affected very early in Alzheimer’s disease may explain why some aging people are at greater risk of financial exploitation. That is the key finding of our new study^[1], published in the journal Cerebral Cortex.

We are a clinical psychology doctoral student^[2] and a clinical neuropsychologist^[3], and we are interested in understanding whether greater likelihood of being financially exploited – such as being the...