Education reforms have triggered a national debate, and it is time to shift our focus from the mantra of memorising facts to mastering the art of thinking as an educational tool for the children of ...

A long U.S. study finds simple computer based brain training may lower dementia risk even decades later in older adults.

Adults who played a specific type of cognitive speed training were found to have a dramatically lower risk of developing ...

On International Epilepsy Day, expert debunks common myths about epilepsy, highlights evidence-based facts, and encourages awareness to fight stigma and empower patients.

A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for ...

Even a short afternoon nap can help the brain recover and improve its ability to learn. In a study published on January 22, 2026, in the journal NeuroImage, researchers at the Medical Center - ...

Bronwyn has always loved words and animals, and she has the journalism and zoology degrees to prove it. After more than 20 years as a writer and editor, the former music journalist went back to ...

Summary: A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1. Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron initially met over lunch so Rob could pitch her a different movie, but she rejected it before they'd ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to more accurately describe how Mansfield Elementary’s test scores compare to those of other schools in Connecticut. When the doors to Mansfield Elementary ...

Memories and learning processes are based on changes in the brain's neuronal connections and, as a result, in signal transmission between neurons. For the first time, DZNE researchers have observed an ...