A new University of Maryland School of Public Health study reveals how walking strengthens connections within and between three of the brain's networks, including one associated with Alzheimer's disease, adding to the growing ...
May 25, 2023
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Whether you decided to engage in social distancing in the early stages of COVID-19 depended on how much information your working memory could hold.
Jul 11, 2020
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Inherited forms of Alzheimer's disease may be detectable as many as 20 years before problems with memory and thinking develop, scientists will report July 20, 2011, at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference ...
Jul 20, 2011
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Baseball may be America's favorite pastime, but in rankings of the most popular hobbies, reading is more consistently ranked highly. It's not hard to see why: reading is simultaneously engaging and relaxing, and it's fun ...
Dec 6, 2022
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Exercising to improve our cardiovascular strength may protect us from cognitive impairment as we age, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Montreal. "Our body's arteries stiffen with age, and the vessel ...
Aug 25, 2014
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The well known 'use it or lose it' claim has been widely accepted by healthcare professionals, but researchers in the Christmas issue of The BMJ find that regularly doing problem solving activities throughout your lifetime ...
Dec 10, 2018
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Playing video games for an hour each day can improve subsequent performance on cognitive tasks that use similar mental processes to those involved in the game, according to research published March 13 in the open access journal ...
Mar 13, 2013
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A key feature of Alzheimer's disease is memory loss and losing one's ability to think and make decisions (also called "cognitive ability"). Those changes can begin slowly, during a phase called "mild cognitive impairment" ...
Jan 23, 2018
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The human brain is capable of complex processes. The brain senses time and visualizes space. It allows us to communicate through language and create beautiful works of art. But what about when these cognitive abilities go ...
Jun 17, 2015
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Dementia with Lewy bodies is a progressive disease that causes hallucinations, decline in mental abilities, rigid muscles, slow movement and tremors. With symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, a ...
Nov 2, 2016
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