When asked the other day about a bakery near my home, I responded that I'd recently eaten its mouth-watering chocolate chip cookies. My wife corrected me, noting that the cookies I ate were actually ...

In our anti-aging obsessed culture, it's easy to fall into the trap of believing that aging is inherently bad. But, according to new research conducted at Yale University, those very beliefs can have ...

A new study has revealed that neural inhibition and balanced neural activity in a specific area of the brain is required for ...

Consumption of flavonols may preserve memory and cognition over time, new research suggests. Three specific components of flavonols in particular — kaempferol, myricetin, and quercetin — were ...

To boost brain power and memory, combine lifestyle changes with active learning. You need to alter your lifestyle and include ...

Exercise has been shown to boost cognition immediately and over the long-term, as well as helping to prevent a number of ...

Research indicates that human memory and cognition exhibit a robust preference for animate over inanimate stimuli. This animacy effect is evident across multiple experimental paradigms, including free ...

A new study has discovered the important role that a subset of microglia, the brain’s immune cells, plays in early brain development, cognition and memory. The finding gives us a better understanding ...

Objective To evaluate systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the effects of exercise on general cognition, memory and executive function across all populations and ages. Methods ...