Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brain-training games sell themselves as a way to maintain cognitive function, but the evidence isn't there yet. Eva-Katalin/E+ via ...

Brain training games are games that allow players to complete tasks that practice specific cognitive skills that exercise their memory, attention span, logic, and fast thinking. Brain training ...

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research.Surprisingly, it wasn’t memory or problem-solving tasks that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Research shows that crossword puzzles are effective in improving memory. (Getty Images) (artisteer via Getty Images) There is no ...

There is no reality check like telling someone the same story twice and not realizing it until they stop you midway. When that’s followed by misplacing your keys for the second time in a week or ...

Some 2.3 million of U.S. adults older than 65 — more than 4% — have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain amount of cognitive decline is normal as age sets in. And whether ...

Companies that market brain games do so with the assumption that if people play the games, they will improve in the skill that the game tests. They further assume that improving these core cognitive ...

Get ready to have your mind messed with! "Brain Games" is a groundbreaking series that uses interactive experiments, misdirection and tricks to demonstrate how our brains create the illusion of ...