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, ...

Exercising after studying can boost memory retention and learning. Dr Kunal Sood explains how timing and brain chemistry make ...

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that ...

Most of us have experienced the link between mental health and exercise, whether your burst of feel-good endorphins is coming from a 45-minute HIIT workout or a walk around the block. Exercise can ...

Sarah Kremen, MD, Sarah Kremen, MD, is director of the Neurobehavior Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “Episodic memory is remembering events that have happened, places you’ve ...

Researchers sought to find a non-pharmaceutical approach to improving episodic memory in late adulthood—and while their meta-analysis, which looked at 36 studies totaling 2,750 participant, was in no ...

New research from the University College London found that 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity and sleeping for at least six hours at night could contribute to improved cognitive performance ...

Anterograde amnesia is one type of memory loss where people have difficulty forming new memories after the amnesia-causing event.

Now that you’ve signed up for BrainHQ, congratulations! You’re one step closer to sharpening major parts of your brain, including your memory, attention span, brain speed, and more. But like any gym ...

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A single 30-minute session of moderate exercise on a stationary bicycle increases activation in the circuits of the brain that are associated with semantic memory retrieval — including the hippocampus ...