Scientists are uncovering a subtle but powerful signal hidden within the sleeping brain, one that may reveal how quickly the brain is aging and how that relates to future dementia risk. By analyzing ...

A good cry and short break later, I have my answer: I was attempting to think deeply when my brain wasn’t able to do so.

Your mind goes blank in the supermarket. What was it you meant to buy? Here’s what’s going on in your brain and when you need ...

Last spring, Marsha Friesen lay in an MRI tube racking her brain. She might as well have been doing memory dropsets. The former high school English teacher had driven 45 minutes from her home to ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...

Our brain function is far from static throughout our lives. We already know that our capacity to learn, and our risk of cognitive decline, varies from when we are a newborn through to our 90s. Now, ...

A sharper, more resilient mind starts here. Monday Test Your Knowledge Tuesday MIND Your Diet Wednesday Try a New Workout Thursday Play a Game Welcome to the Brain Health Challenge! I’m Dana Smith, a ...