Brain games show great promise for helping to keep our memory sharp and our thinking crisp, and they could be a natural way to prevent dementia.

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Certain sedentary activities, like reading, benefit brain health, while others, like watching TV, harm it. Researchers urge ...

New research suggests that everyday activities, like walking your dog and playing with your kids, can have an immediate ...

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Researchers found that slow spindle brain waves in the hippocampus, crucial for memory, synchronize with breathing rhythms during NREM sleep. This discovery suggests that breathing disruptions ...

“When slow-wave sleep is artificially augmented from outside, memory improves. But what we didn’t know until now was what exactly is happening inside the brain when this occurs, because it is ...

MADISON, CONN., Dec. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a win for consumers, a court has ordered Quincy Bioscience to stop advertising Prevagen using memory-improvement claims. This follows a near-decade ...

Getting more sleep, particularly deep sleep, seems to add to this memory improvement. “Moderate or vigorous activity means anything that ... In the short term, exercise increases blood flow to the ...

The participants also took daily cognitive tests of attention, memory ... exercise can improve their presentation.” Does sleep complement these benefits? “During sleep, the brain consolidates ...

The less time a participant spent sitting, the higher their memory scored tended to be too. Not only does that suggest exercise may help with memory, but that the brain-boosting effects may last ...