Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...

This way, “you don’t even have to remember the password, which is kind of nice.” “It reduces your cognitive load to ...

Instead, we might be seeing the emergence of two distinct cognitive cultures: the Symbionts and the Sovereigns. Two distinct perspectives that—philosophically and functionally—engage with ...

Their findings, published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, could help bring this treatment, known as magnetic seizure therapy (MST), closer to approval from the ...

As we age, memory loss and cognitive decline become increasingly common, affecting millions of people worldwide. Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University have made a promising ...

This study highlights the need for climate-resilient housing policies to protect seniors’ cognitive health as global temperatures rise. Higher temperatures are linked to an increased risk of cognitive ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Severance, which imagines a world where a person’s work and personal lives are surgically separated, returns ...

Summary: A new study has identified three psychological profiles that influence brain health, cognitive decline, and dementia risk in aging adults. Profiles with high protective traits, like purpose ...

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A new study, from Japan, provides further evidence that green tea may help fight cognitive decline and therefore reduce dementia risk. In this study, older people who regularly drank green tea had ...