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

Eating the best foods for brain health, exercising, and staying social are key for keeping your mind sharp with age. Now, scientists say there’s another activity to add to your routine that may lower ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for decades.

Some 2.3 million U.S. adults over 65 — more than 4% — have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain amount of cognitive decline is normal as age sets in. Whether it’s due to ...

As we get older, it's normal for our cognitive abilities to start declining gradually. What we may gain in wisdom we lose in processing speed and short-term memory, for example. That's why it's ...

Will these people never leave us alone? Researchers have released yet another brain-health study, this one finding that people who played a speed-training video game for a mere 23 hours dramatically ...