A study of 3,854 adolescents tied compulsive gaming symptoms to lower cognitive performance, while longer playtime showed ...

New research suggests the brain may lose its ability to adjust to change before the first obvious memory symptoms appear.

Scientists discovered that a key brain signal may have been pointing researchers in the wrong direction, potentially changing ...

Journalist Katie Couric recently shared her experience of sudden memory loss that persisted for several hours during a recent ...

The amount of time young people spend playing video games is not enough to judge whether gaming is linked to cognitive ...

A new meta-analysis suggests that CBD may improve emotional behavior and cognition in animal models, but researchers caution ...

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your ...

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As we grow older, our cognitive abilities begin to wane. We forget names and places, lose trains of thought, and become creatures of habit. A key to overcoming these ageing-induced cognitive deficits ...

The researchers studied neural activity in 16 participants with epilepsy who had electrodes in their brains. Maskot via Getty Images Visualizing an object in the mind’s eye allows us to remember the ...

A team led by the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has identified a brain circuit ...

Heavy alcohol use can cause short-term memory loss, including blackouts that often begin around a 0.16% blood alcohol concentration (BAC). Long-term heavy drinking can lead to lasting memory and ...