Decades of research has found that exercise is helpful for overall health and fitness, doing everything from lowering your risk of heart disease to helping you sleep better. According to a new study, ...

GENEVA — Want to know if you’ll make it to 100? Try naming as many animals as you can in 90 seconds. It might sound like a silly test, but it turns out there’s some pretty fascinating science there ...

New blood tests can predict a person's risk for dementia or memory problems long before symptoms appear, according to a study by University of Vermont scientists. The tests detect tiny amounts of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Testing revealed significant cognitive differences between patients with Alzheimer’s or dementia and healthy ...

Just a few days of eating a diet high in saturated fat could be enough to cause memory problems and related brain inflammation in older adults, a new study in rats suggests. Researchers fed separate ...

Eating a daily serving of peanuts may help older adults improve blood flow to their brains and boost memory, according to new research. In a study published in Clinical Nutrition, scientists at the ...

Eating fatty food in the days leading up to surgery may prompt a heightened inflammatory response in the brain that interferes for weeks with memory-related cognitive function in older adults -- and, ...

Just a few days of eating a diet high in saturated fat could be enough to cause memory problems and related brain inflammation in older adults, a new study in rats suggests. Just a few days of eating ...

Older adults who experience delirium after hip fracture surgery face a significantly faster decline in memory and thinking ...

Grandparents who help care for grandkids performed better on memory and verbal tests in a recent study. Grandmothers in ...