Contrary to the common notion that physical and cognitive abilities continuously decline with age, the study found that nearly half of older adults experienced improvements in these functions over ...

Aging in later life is often portrayed as a steady slide toward physical and cognitive decline. But a new study by scientists ...

A new study by scientists has shown that aging is not necessarily accompanied by continuous decline: almost half of adults over 65 have shown improvements in cognitive or physical activity over the ...

A person's mindset towards aging may play a major role in how a person ages, a new study out of Yale University has revealed.

The field of systems neuroscience increasingly seeks to understand how distributed neural populations interact to support complex cognitive functions such ...

Future schools may well foster human growth and resilience, with teachers as engagement coaches who guide self-aware, adaptable learners.

This study presents valuable findings for identifying biotypes of depression patients using white matter measures, which are under-utilised and under-appreciated in current biological and ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have used a form of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze anatomical changes in the brain and predict Alzheimer's disease with nearly 93% accuracy.

Psychologists who study mental load point out that this kind of cognitive labor is exhausting—and often invisible. The people ...

If you had walked onto a trading floor thirty years ago, you would have heard noise before you saw anything. Phones ringing, traders shouting prices, hands signalling bids and offers. Markets were ...

On March 9, 1776, four months before the American colonies broke with Britain over the issue of taxation, a little-known Scottish thinker published a long, dense book with an unpromising title: “An ...