A "promising lead" may move the field into developing effective interventions, NIA directo ...

They were assigned to different groups, each of which took part in different brain training sessions at various times in the study. The scientists then tracked participants’ cog ...

A simple brain-training program that sharpens how quickly older adults process visual information may have a surprisingly powerful long-term payoff. In a major 20-year study of adults 65 and older, ...

A neuroimaging study from NYU shows that the same type of brain training found to reduce dementia risk in the recent ACTIVE Study can also repair white matter damaged by brain injury. The brain ...

Critical flicker fusion (CFF), a measure of visual processing speed, predicts executive function in younger and older adults and may be helpful in predicting decline in executive function, say ...

Brain training reduces dementia risk by 25% over 20 years, long-term study finds. Cognitive speed training shows lasting ...

A 20-year study reveals that "speed of processing" brain training can reduce the risk of dementia by 25% in older adults.

A specific type of mental exercise could buy you more time, according to new long-term data.