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If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it and repeat. Over time, it ...

Daily routines change, and many older adults find that learning new processes becomes more difficult over time. Slower ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

Most children in elementary school begin learning about the body and how it works; however, research reveals that parents and teachers tend to leave out information about the brain. In fact, one study ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

The human brain is one of the most complex structures in nature, but the brain's origins stretch back hundreds of millions of years. A new study using AI deep-learning models has revealed more about ...

Even a short afternoon nap can help the brain recover and improve its ability to learn. In a study published on January 22, ...

Cognitive decline is natural: it starts to subtly set in by our 40s, and by your mid-50s it’s perfectly normal to find ...

Neuroscientists have found that participating in complex mental activities like Bridge can help improve a range of cognitive ...

As weight-loss drugs surge in popularity, doctors are starting to see a broader range of side effects emerge — particularly ...