Your walking pace reveals your brain’s health and your overall age. Midlife speed tests link slower miles per hour to brain ...

New research suggests lifelong musical training may help older adults maintain youthful brain function for understanding ...

The United States is changing fast. The old paradigm of Reagan-era Neoliberalism, marked by Cold War foreign policy and harsh "free market" economic maneuvers is quickly giving way to a politics of ...

A new study shows that a novel online assessment provides a valid scientific measure of the cognitive abilities of older ...

A Finnish population study shows that signs related to Alzheimer's disease may already be found in the brain in middle age.

Young Democrat wants cognitive tests for aging members of Congress - Despite Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s amendment failing, she ...

Objectives To review the efficacy of cognitive interventions on improving general cognition in dementia. Method Online literature databases and trial registers, previous systematic reviews and leading ...

Those who are blessed with long lives will eventually experience a decline in cognitive functions, and working memory is ...

We examined whether short-term memory (STM) capacity, type of practice, metacognitive judgments and task characteristics influence the likelihood of cognitive offloading. We used Risko and Dunn’s ...

Tests of hippocampal-dependent cognition may provide some benefit here. While neuropsychological cognitive tests cannot of course replace biomarker tests and clinical assessments, they may have some ...

Age-appropriate cognitive assessments have been done at five points, so far. The team found that looking at cognitive tests in infancy could predict about 13% of the variance in scores at age 30.

The variability in cognitive abilities of long-term care residents poses a challenge for screening techniques, and the flexibility required for testing often opposes validated test standards.