Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

The hippocampus is a crucial part of the brain that plays a role in memory and learning, especially in remembering directions ...

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 ...

These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

A brief bout of physical exercise can create "ripples" of activity in your brain that help you store and retrieve memories.

Picture this: your brain is a high-performance engine. Over decades, it doesn't just wear down, it also starts to run hot.

Memory loss often feels like something that arrives late in life. In reality, the story may begin much earlier, long before ...

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...

When it comes to physical fitness, most people over 50 ignore giving their brains a workout. Unfortunately, our daily ...

What you eat at breakfast affects focus and memory, not just whether you eat. Foods like walnuts, blueberries, eggs, ...