Farmer knew that purpose in life can lower the risk of a number of adverse health outcomes for older adults, especially ...

Cognitive scientist Benjamin K. Bergen’s Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning recounts that the parts of the brain engaged when throwing a baseball also fire up when ...

This is the first post in a series. For me, cognition is the quiet engine of my existence. It shapes how we interpret reality, how we construct meaning, and how we define intelligence itself. For ...

We’re witnessing a collision between AI’s growing sophistication and natural intelligence’s vulnerabilities, which leads to ...

Many medical problems, such as traumatic brain injuries, stroke, dementia, and even cancer, can affect the brain and make it difficult for someone to think or process information. Cognitive ...

For individuals with hearing impairment, hearing aid (HA) use is associated with a reduced risk for dementia and cognitive impairment, according to a study published online Jan. 14 in Neurology.

Recently revised guidelines for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease would reclassify nearly all patients who are currently diagnosed with mild or very mild Alzheimer’s as having mild cognitive impairment ...