The Conversation reports that the brain can be trained like muscles; new challenges and rest help boost brain health and connectivity.

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A new study from Johns Hopkins found that one type of brain-training computer game may help reduce the risk of dementia by up to 25 percent. What’s more, that protective effect appeared to last for ...

Doctors often advise exercising your brain to stay sharp but stretching your brain might be the better description.

Can brain training “rewire” the brain to prevent dementia? What about repair the brain following an injury? Or turn back the ...

An ongoing study being conducted over two decades have found link between speed training the brain and reduced risk of dementia.  | Health ...

One of the more encouraging findings out of the Rush study is that although the benefits were greater when someone seeks out intellectual stimulation throughout their life, people still were ...

The two long-term studies add to a growing body of evidence that people can boost their brain health by doing mentally stimulating activities, such as learning a language, visiting a museum or playing ...

The results of this decades-long study offer a powerful message of hope: we are not helpless against the passage of time. By ...

Now, newly released, longer-term information from the ACTIVE study shows that a triple-dose of progressively more difficult speed-of-processing game played for 60-75 minutes twice a week over five to ...

A 20-year follow-up of older adults in the ACTIVE randomized trial linked to Medicare claims found that speed of processing cognitive training with booster sessions was associated with a significantly ...

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 tasks that ...