Doctors often advise exercising your brain to stay sharp but stretching your brain might be the better description.

A new comedic play and a 20-year neurology study explore what we can do to prevent dementia and cognitive decline.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brain training uses challenges to improve speed, focus and accuracy and bolster brains. In BrainHQ’s Double-Decision challenge, ...

Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias were less likely among adults who completed cognitive speed training with booster sessions, according to data published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: ...

It’s easy to add to your routine, too.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for decades.

Adults age 65 and older who completed five to six weeks of cognitive speed training—in this case, speed of processing ...

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research. Surprisingly, it wasn’t memory or problem-solving tasks that ...

The results of this decades-long study offer a powerful message of hope: we are not helpless against the passage of time. By ...

Fusion Academy, a leader in personalized one-to-one education, and Mastermind Cognitive Training (Mastermind), a neuroscience-based cognitive performance training program, today announced a limited ...

October 12, 2012 — "Chemo brain" — the cognitive impairment often reported in cancer survivors who have received chemotherapy — can be significantly improved with computerized brain-training exercises ...

If there were a way to improve your running performance without putting more stress on your body, would you use it? This isn’t a trick—we aren’t talking about illegal substances. Instead, we’re ...