In a long-running RCT, older adults who completed adaptive speed-of-processing training with boosters were less likely to ...

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What it actually means to recognize yourself as neurodivergent or gifted, and why it is not really about trying to be special ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer A new study found that brain training exercises may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.Specifically, a speed training intervention cut dementia risk by about ...

What if the pictures in your mind were not just faint impressions? Hyperphantasia shows how imagination can become both a ...

Venting when angry seems sensible. Conventional wisdom suggests that expressing anger can help us quell it, like releasing steam from a pressure cooker. But this common metaphor is misleading, ...

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While brain-training apps and expensive supplements dominate the market, the sharpest septuagenarians are quietly preserving their cognitive edge through deliberate daily hand movements that ...