Researchers measured acetylcholine production in participants' brains at the beginning and end of the 10-week trial.

Learning a new skill or doing mentally stimulating activities can help protect your brain from dementia. (Getty Creative) As the year winds down and the holiday hubbub clears, you may find yourself ...

A new 18-month study found that adults following a calorie-restricted “green-MED” diet — rich in green tea, walnuts, and the ...

Exercise is generally good for your body and brain, no matter how you do it. But research out this month suggests that even brief outdoor activities can be especially stimulating for your noggin. The ...

Certain sitting activities like reading, crafting, and socializing are more beneficial for brain health than other behaviors like watching TV, a new study found. Despite being sedentary, the ...

Are you easily distracted? Do you have trouble putting names to faces? Are you prone to losing your keys, cellphone, glasses or wallet, or walking into a room in your house and forgetting why you were ...

More physical activity in late childhood is associated with an increase in brain volume in regions involved in cognition, emotion, learning, and psychiatric illness. Investigators used data on 1088 ...

Communication between regions of the brain is constantly in flux, but the neuroimaging technologies used to analyze these interactions typically provide only a snapshot representing several minutes’ ...