Genetics plays a role in how our brain ages. But that accounts for 30% of the cognitive changes that happen as we get older. The other 70%? That’s up to us. Neuroscientist Ana Daugherty runs the ...

New research in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise suggests exercise may be one way to boost that self-control. Specifically, researchers found that an aerobic activity protocol improved ...

A large genetic study found people with gene variants that lower certain cholesterol pathways had a markedly lower chance of ...

In a fast-paced digital world, always-on notifications and multitasking often result in what’s been described as ‘popcorn brain’. This creates a state of restlessness and mental distraction. Discover ...

Heavy alcohol use, which researchers defined as regular alcohol consumption of three or more drinks per day, is linked to more severe brain bleeds (or a bleeding stroke) and earlier long-term brain ...

We’ve all been there. That moment when you unbutton your pants under the table after Thanksgiving dinner. The late-night fridge raid that somehow ends with an empty ice cream container. The afternoon ...

In this adapted excerpt from "How to Change a Memory," author and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez recounts the events that led ...

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a host of recognizable cognitive symptoms, but many non-cognitive symptoms like changes in sleep, anxiety and depression can be early signs of the disease.

Oral contraceptives have been effectively preventing pregnancy for more than 65 years, but it has only been in the past 10 that scientists – many of them women – have started to seriously examine what ...