Long-term brain-training activities can improve your working memory, verbal memory, and global functioning. Challenging ...

New neurons in your brain? A landmark study from Karolinska Institutet finds adults keep forming brain cells into the old age ...

Though it's now clear humans continue to grow new brain cells throughout their entire lives, debate persists over whether ...

A good brain teaser or riddle can provide hours of entertainment for kids and adults. From math puzzles to word teasers, here are the best ones.

They’ve long been seen as a way to prevent cognitive decline—but experts say the real key to brain health goes far beyond word games. An elderly person works on a crossword puzzle. These games ...

After years of debate, scientists provided new evidence for the lifelong birth of human brain cells, which may inform future ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

So games, puzzles, and other types of brain training may help slow memory loss and other mental problems. One study involved more than 2,800 adults 65 and older. They went to up to 10 hour-long ...

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

In 1979, Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the development of computer-assisted ...