A collaboration between SISSA's Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are ...

A neuroimaging study in China found that young female college students who participated in an 18-week street dance program ...

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To help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease, people should take a brisk walk each day, limit their TV time and do a crossword puzzle instead.

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The ways you naturally choose to spend your free time might reveal more about your cognitive abilities than any test ever could.

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

Super-agers have the memory and focus on people decades younger. A neurologist said he's on track to be one with a ...

Our brains do not react in a fixed, mechanical way like electronic circuits. Even if we see the same scene every day on our commute to work, what we feel - and whether it leaves a lasting impression - ...