CLEVELAND, Ohio — A joint study by University Hospitals and the VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System investigated whether exercise could forge new neurological connections in the brains of Parkinson’s ...

Breaking free from cigarettes doesn’t require willpower alone. The human brain possesses remarkable plasticity that allows for complete rewiring of smoking associations, transforming a deeply ...

Can brain training “rewire” the brain to prevent dementia? What about repair the brain following an injury? Or turn back the ...

A brain exercise a day might keep you current—it might even revive your brain chemistry. In a landmark clinical trial led by McGill University, researchers discovered that ten weeks of brain training ...

You know exercise is good for you, but your brain still resists it like it’s punishment rather than reward. The problem isn’t willpower or discipline – it’s that your neural pathways haven’t learned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A representative MRI tractography image of the first era of the human brain. The image is representative of the general pattern ...

A new study from Johns Hopkins found that one type of brain-training computer game may help reduce the risk of dementia by up to 25 percent. What’s more, that protective effect appeared to last for ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Denise Cortez hadn’t walked for exercise in eleven years. Not once. The 48-year-old paralegal from Tucson had a gym ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daily online brain training for ten weeks rejuvenated a key brain system tied to memory and focus. (CREDIT: BrainHQ) A brain ...