Music lessons are sometimes sold as a sort of cognitive training. Put a child in front of a piano, the story goes, and ...

Frailty is a syndrome resulting from age-related decline across multiple organ systems. A new study, conducted at the ...

Improvising music could help to improve older people's cognitive skills, such as learning and memory, according to research ...

People can reject misinformation if they experience cognitive dissonance and need to choose between what they believe and ...

If you’ve heard the phrase “executive functioning” recently, it probably came up in the context of ADHD, a common neurobehavioral condition which affects a person’s ability to stay focused, maintain a ...

The first major finding is that while most cognitive skills in puppies develop surprisingly early, they develop independently from one another, emerging at different times across this window of rapid ...

Your brain adapts to whatever you consistently demand from it. Constant AI exposure erodes the mental muscles we need, and a CHIIT approach can protect it.

Brain-training games are all the rage, but whether they prevent cognitive decline has been debatable. Studies in recent years have gone back and forth on the topic, with no definitive conclusion. Many ...

2025 brought a strange convergence: College essays and colonoscopies both demonstrated what can happen when artificial intelligence (AI) leads the work. First came the college data: An MIT team ...

When people lose their train of thought, they sometimes refer to it as having a "senior moment." But those moments are not so senior after all, and they actually have been rising sharply among young ...

Rates of self-reported cognitive disability among U.S. adults are on the increase, driven largely by a surprising jump among young adults ages 18 to 39, according to a new Yale study. In their ...

Strength training is key to staying healthy as people age, with experts recommending working major muscle groups at least two days per week. Marfred Suazo, a fitness professional known as Fonz the ...