You’ve forgotten a few appointments lately and you find yourself losing track of conversations. Close friends or family may have also noticed some changes in your memory or thinking. Becoming more ...

Knowing the status of a relationship, as well as the current state of the world, depends on the ability to track changes.

Cognitive rehabilitation is an umbrella term for a group of targeted exercises and activities that aim to improve or stabilize cognitive impairments as well as any changes in a person’s everyday ...

You don't need to be a victim of violence for it to cloud your thinking: Research finds that just recalling it can be enough to tax your brain.

A new study reveals how literacy fundamentally rewires the human mind, sharpening memory, focus, and face recognition.

Milan Kundera opens his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting with a scene from the winter of 1948. Klement Gottwald, leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, is giving a speech to the ...

Healthy older adults experienced measurable improvements in memory, physical performance, and stress after taking placebo pills for just three weeks. The most surprising finding was that the placebo ...

As people grow older, their social lives often change. Retirement may reduce daily interactions with coworkers. Children may ...

Older adults who knowingly took placebo pills showed significant gains in memory, physical performance, and stress reduction, ...