Residents suggest creative ideas for utilizing unused city assets, including mixed-use housing, a police training center, and student housing.

A study published in the journal Science Advances details a promising, new avenue toward improving awake brain mapping results by investigating the tiny, nearly imperceptible variabilities in patient ...

Expert birders show denser brain tissue in attention and visual regions, suggesting the skill may help slow certain aspects ...

Researchers at Washington State University and the University of Calgary recently published a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that cannabis use led to a measurable ...

A new study found people who completed cognitive speed training sessions were 25% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia ...

Hearing just 16 seconds of music helps your brain predict what comes next, shaping memory, emotion, and how songs make sense.

A simple brain-training program that sharpens how quickly older adults process visual information may have a surprisingly powerful long-term payoff. In a major 20-year study of adults 65 and older, ...

The results showed that expert bird-watchers had structural brain differences compared with novices, regardless of age. The experts had better recognition and task performance skills, according to the ...

Boosting mitochondrial calcium by inhibiting the LETM1 protein enhances long-term memory formation in flies and mice.

Science’s success at staving off death from heart disease or cancer has made another diagnosis more likely: Dementia.

Scientists find specific games that may boost brain health, improve Alzheimer’s disease and dementia risk.