A 20-year study found a brain game that boosts speed and splits attention helped prevent Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

A brief afternoon nap may reset key brain processes, helping the mind stay flexible, focused, and ready to learn.

A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for ...

A landmark study suggests that this daily habit may reshape how your mind activates.

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the ...

Scientists discovered that two brain chemicals in honey bees can predict how fast they will learn, offering new insight into ...

A sleep break can help the brain regenerate and improve its learning capacity. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by Freiburg University Hospital (Germany), Geneva University Hospitals ...

Activities like learning a new language as a child or reading, writing, and playing board games later in life all had an impact on Alzheimer’s risk.

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer ...