Age is more than just one number. While neuroscientists used to think of cognitive aging as a single trendline, they now ...

Memories rarely arrive as an unbroken stream. The brain quietly divides life into segments: entering a room, starting a conversation, or watching a new scene unfold. Each shift creates a mental ...

When it comes to my health, I’ve always feared the day of reckoning. A bleak conversation in a doctor’s surgery where my youthful indiscretions finally catch up with me. On the way to the Longevity ...

WASHINGTON — The blast shook the ground and its red flash of fire covered the doorway as U.S. special operations forces blew open a door during a recent training exercise. Moments later, in their next ...

Gautam Mukunda writes about corporate management and innovation. He teaches leadership at the Yale School of Management and is the author of "Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter." ...

Scientists have discovered how to make people less selfish - at least temporarily - by stimulating two areas of their brain. In a new study carried out at the University of Zurich, 44 volunteers were ...

A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for decades. Experts say the findings are the strongest evidence yet that cognitive ...

In the recreation room at Eskaton Village in Carmichael, Bonnie Dale, one of the residents, is trying on a virtual reality (VR) headset. Colorful exercise balls of different sizes line one wall, and ...

A patient recently showed me his annual health check-up, blood sugar normal, HbA1c 5.8%, cholesterol "borderline." His doctor told him to watch his diet and come back next year. When I ran a fuller ...

Many dog parents think of their pets in the same way that they would their own children, and try and give them the best of everything. That means routine visits to the vet, ensuring they have access ...

This study used pupillometry to provide an objective assessment of a form of synesthesia in which people see additional color when reading numbers. It provides convincing evidence that subjective ...