A study finds that people who did one specific form of brain training in the 1990s were less likely to be diagnosed with ...

The sensation of profound depletion following a day of intense mental labor has long been dismissed as a subjective ...

Researchers have identified a specific liver protein produced during exercise that strengthens the brain’s protective barrier and improves memory in aging mice. This finding suggests a potential ...

Researchers found that regularly following the exercise regimen for a year led to participants’ brains appearing nearly a ...

Speed training your brain could help delay developing dementia by years, according to a recent National Institutes of Health ...

A simple brain-training exercise could reduce people's risk of developing dementia by 25 percent, a study said Monday, but ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered a mechanism that could explain how exercise improves cognition by shoring up ...

The work reveals that the brain — in mice and, presumably, in humans — is actively involved in the development of endurance, the ability to get better at a physical activity with repeated practice, ...

Adults who did regular aerobic exercise for a year had brains that appeared about one year younger on MRI scans than people ...

Researchers identify brain neurons that become active after exercise and help determine how much endurance improves with repeated training.

Last month, I began a series of posts focusing on recent scientific research that supports the philosophical claims in my latest book, Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming. In turn, I am ...

Jeff Tweedy, leader of the roots-inflected rock bands Wilco and Uncle Tupelo, struggled mightily with various drug addictions, most notably to prescription painkillers, alcohol, and cigarettes. These ...