Higher childhood intelligence correlates with longer, healthier life and reduced disease risk by 20-25%. Childhood intelligence strongly predicts cognitive abilities in old age, with lifestyle factors ...

Dementia represents far more than occasional forgetfulness or confusion. This collection of cognitive conditions affects millions worldwide, fundamentally altering lives and challenging our ...

This is the second of three chapters exploring risk and protective factors and interventions relevant to cognitive aging. Chapter 4A discusses lifestyle factors and the physical environment, and ...

The cognitive revolution has radically changed the way we see and understand the mind. Source: Matt Palmer/Unsplash A school counsellor in our neighbourhood recently helped a young kindergarten pupil ...

As we age, neurocognitive disorders, including dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, can be particularly worrisome, impacting not just the individual but also their loved ones. Understanding the ...

Many people with multiple sclerosis (MS) expect to cope with physical challenges like problems with walking or seeing, but the disease's central nervous system damage often causes mental health ...

In a recent study published in Science Advances, researchers tested the effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy components on cognitive mechanisms. Study: Different components of cognitive-behavioral ...

Every year, millions of infants and children undergo surgery under general anesthesia in the world. Sevoflurane is a commonly used pediatric anesthetic. Its exposure during brain development has been ...

People forget things—a name, where they put their keys, a phone number—and yet what is dismissed as a minor inconvenience at 25 years of age can evolve into a momentary anxiety at 35, and a major ...