Adults learn skills faster but forget more easily, while children retain skills better due to the benefits of sleep, ...

New research published in the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement has found that older adults who regularly participated in mentally challenging activities, such as reading or puzzles, maintained higher ...

Some 2.3 million of U.S. adults over 65—more than 4%—have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain ...

A study reveals that young adults outpace children in learning new motor skills. However, they also lose these skills faster.

Everyday physical activities, from light chores to intense exercise, provide immediate cognitive benefits for middle-aged ...

Contrary to popular belief, children aren’t better at learning new skills than adults. Indeed, young adults seem to learn faster than kids – but also tend to forget more quickly. Here, better sleep ...

New research finds that even single bouts of intense exercise can improve cognitive performance in young adults, particularly ...

Six years after his Alzheimer’s diagnosis, 90-year-old Zelik Bocknek (Zel) refuses to slow down — and he believes his active ...

Excessive daytime sleepiness could be an early sign of a pre-dementia condition called motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR), ...

Try virtual yoga, study suggests The new study focused on almost 15,000 adult volunteers who were given activity trackers to ...

His research centers around understanding how the aging process affects skeletal muscle and how to offset that, so adults can be stronger, more functional and live a higher quality of life. Because of ...