A brain exercise a day might keep you current—it might even revive your brain chemistry. In a landmark clinical trial led by ...

Playing certain brain-training games may boost production of a neurotransmitter responsible for attention and focus, ...

It’s frustrating when you try to hunker down to tackle a project, only to have your mind wander. If this happens more than ...

As a parent, a spouse, and someone who works full time at my job and pretty much full time at keeping a household running, I often feel like I have 20 tabs open in my brain at once. There are always ...

A McGill University-led clinical trial is the first in humans to show online brain training exercises can improve brain ...

When you exercise, your body kicks off a series of chemical and cellular reactions that seem almost magical. Within minutes, your heart pumps faster, your lungs expand, and your brain releases ...

Studies show that your brain doesn’t perceive the world exactly as it is. Instead, it “fills in gaps in perception.” The first layer of your brain’s primary visual cortex helps to decide what reality ...

It’s easy to dismiss just-because hobbies like painting or poetry as silly little things you do to busy your hands or find a brief escape from the drama or drudgery of life. But a new study including ...

Abigail Dove receives funding from Alzheimerfonden, Demensfonden, and the Loo and Hans Osterman Foundation for Medical Research. We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, yet sleep is anything but ...

While we've known for some time that obesity affects the brain, scientists have found that, more importantly, it's where you carry it that matters. And it's the deep visceral fat around organs that ...

Dana Santas, known as the “Mobility Maker,” is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and mind-body coach in professional sports, and is the author of the book “Practical Solutions for Back ...

Living with a sense of purpose may not just enrich life, it could also guard against dementia. A UC Davis study tracking over 13,000 adults for up to 15 years found that people with higher purpose ...