Learning a new skill or doing mentally stimulating activities can help protect your brain from dementia. (Getty Creative) As the year winds down and the holiday hubbub clears, you may find yourself ...

Cognitive training boosts memory and thinking skills through regular, targeted practice. Progressive, challenging exercises help your brain remember information and improve everyday recall. Memory ...

Certain sitting activities like reading, crafting, and socializing are more beneficial for brain health than other behaviors like watching TV, a new study found. Despite being sedentary, the ...

Are you easily distracted? Do you have trouble putting names to faces? Are you prone to losing your keys, cellphone, glasses or wallet, or walking into a room in your house and forgetting why you were ...

Exercise is generally good for your body and brain, no matter how you do it. But research out this month suggests that even brief outdoor activities can be especially stimulating for your noggin. The ...

Regular moderate to vigorous physical activity predicts larger brain size in key regions, including gray and white matter and the hippocampus, new data suggest. The potential neuroprotective effects ...

More physical activity in late childhood is associated with an increase in brain volume in regions involved in cognition, emotion, learning, and psychiatric illness. Investigators used data on 1088 ...

This isn’t walking and chewing gum at the same time. The Vi at La Jolla Village senior-living community will launch a Brain Vitality Studio next month, featuring three pieces of equipment designed to ...