Recent trials suggest that simple steps during chemotherapy — including moderate exercise and a daily ibuprofen — may lessen ...

Experiences of cognitive problems such as memory loss or difficulty concentrating, known as "brain fog," may not predict ...

People who had fragmented sleep in their 30s and 40s were more likely to have worse cognition a decade later, longitudinal data showed. Those in the highest versus the lowest tertile of the sleep ...

Half a million Americans will be diagnosed with dementia this year. That represents a 42% jump in the risk that someone age 55 or older will develop the life-altering condition. In fact, an ...

Survey data showed that a third of Parkinson's patients reported a cognitive symptom soon after diagnosis. Most common were problems with memory, language or word finding, and concentration or ...

A new study is quantifying the harms of long COVID, showing that people with lingering symptoms of it can have cognitive deficits equal to losing intelligence quotient, or IQ, points. Researchers ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." We all have memory lapses and brain-foggy moments—that’s part of being human. We forget where we put down ...

Does epinephrine make you think differently? Could love make you illogical? The assumption that artificial intelligence would necessarily replicate human thought processes may be a fundamental ...

Cognition is the cornerstone of human potential, enabling knowledge acquisition, processing information, solving problems, and finding meaning. By sharpening cognitive skills—reasoning, ...

Human interactions are complex and come with their share of disappointments. This can be the case, for instance, when a loved one doesn’t react to our distress or joy the way we wish they had.