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If you ask your friends about their favorite memories, they may mention their first kiss, a wedding day, or perhaps even giving birth to their child. It’s usually an important moment in time. But how ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Doing moderate-to-vigorous exercise could lead to ...

Known colloquially as “smart drugs,” nootropics are natural or synthetic substances that provide various forms of cognitive enhancement. Some nootropics, like caffeine, are stimulants that many people ...

Engaging in brain-training puzzles is an excellent way to boost memory, improve cognitive function, and sharpen problem-solving skills . These puzzles challenge the brain, encouraging it to form new ...

Memory can wither with age. Forgetfulness can be unnerving, but there are ways you can support your mind during memory loss — or support a loved one going through it. While not all lost memories can ...

If you are what you eat—and evidence increasingly indicates that's the case—perhaps sage will help you grow wiser. Research findings from England seem to corroborate the culinary folklore that sage ...

Searching for new ways to help my senior patients improve and maintain cognitive functions, I came across an interesting research study from the University of California Irvine (Woo, C. et al. 2023) ...

People with schizophrenia often suffer from cognitive difficulties. Transcranial direct current stimulation of the brain is widely considered safe and is being studied as a treatment for depression.