A 20-year study shows that a specific type of brain training can cut dementia risk. Here's why it works.

Game-based training improves not only the cognitive abilities of people with initial signs of developing dementia, but also leads to positive changes in the brain. That is according to two new studies ...

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Some 2.3 million U.S. adults over 65 — more than 4% — have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain amount of cognitive decline is normal as age sets in. Whether it’s due to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for decades.

The concept that cognitive health can be preserved or improved is often expressed as "use it or lose it." Numerous modifiable risk factors are associated with "losing" cognitive abilities with age and ...

Brain endurance training is designed to improve athletes’ performance by making them resilient to mental fatigue. Now ...

True photographic memory as depicted in pop culture doesn’t exist. That’s because too much detail would defeat our ability to make a quick decision based on experience. However, some people have ...

When we sleep, our brains replay the events of the day to solidify new skills, a process scientists previously thought was always controlled by a region called the hippocampus. A new study in mice ...

While heart attack risks are falling, cognitive decline is rising. A UT Dallas study shows how daily habits enhance brain ...