Scores on a memory test dropped as football experience rose, and the pattern held across thousands of former players. This trend was the focus of a large analysis of retired American football players ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a "Stroke Cognition Calculator," a new tool designed to estimate a person's chance of having thinking and memory problems six months after a ...

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 ...

Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias were less likely among adults who completed cognitive speed training with booster sessions, according to data published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: ...

A groundbreaking study published in the medical journal Neurology has revealed a critical link between feeling excessively sleepy during daylight hours and a pre-dementia condition known as motoric ...

New research shows that poor air quality could be causing cognitive problems in babies and toddlers. A new study reveals an association between poor air quality in India and impaired cognition in ...

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 ...

Screening for cognitive impairment and referring people for outpatient cognitive evaluation in the emergency department is feasible due to the high percentage of patients who are ultimately diagnosed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The internet loves a good IQ test, but most of them are measuring whether you can spot a hidden object in a crowded image or ...

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

A group of studies, all conducted independently, have reached a similar sobering conclusion: sleep problems—including several common sleep difficulties faced by millions of people on a regular ...