Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brain-training games sell themselves as a way to maintain cognitive function, but the evidence isn't there yet. Eva-Katalin/E+ via ...

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, ...

Speed-of-processing cognitive training in older adults significantly reduced dementia risk over 20 years, outperforming memory and reasoning training. Its adaptive, implicit learning approach may ...

An update on a decades-long investigation has suggested that brain training can lower the risk of dementia. The Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study, which ...

Lifting weights might help keep your mind young. A new study published in GeroScience suggests that older adults who engage ...

With age comes a natural decline in cognitive function, even among otherwise healthy adults without dementia. A new study finds that a cognitive training program may boost production of a brain ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

An expansive clinical trial led by USF researchers and aimed at delaying the onset of dementia continues to receive major ...

A timely literature review -- during this Brain Injury Awareness Month -- indicates that brain training can help not just with cognitive rehabilitation, but also with cognitive resilience and ...

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 ...

Some 2.3 million of U.S. adults older than 65 — more than 4% — have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain amount of cognitive decline is normal as age sets in. And whether ...