Adults should aim for at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise – such as brisk walking – each week, or at least 75 minutes ...

Decades of research has found that exercise is helpful for overall health and fitness, doing everything from lowering your risk of heart disease to helping you sleep better. According to a new study, ...

Most of us have experienced the link between mental health and exercise, whether your burst of feel-good endorphins is coming from a 45-minute HIIT workout or a walk around the block. Exercise can ...

Scientists continue to illuminate the many ways exercise can positively influence brain health by examining its effects on the many forms of cognitive function, and the latest places a spotlight on ...

Brain exercises let you practice specific cognitive skills that exercise memory, attention span, logic, and fast thinking.

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A single 30-minute session of moderate exercise on a stationary bicycle increases activation in the circuits of the brain that are associated with semantic memory retrieval — including the hippocampus ...

Health experts will wax lyrical about fitness' impressive physical impact, but its effect on the brain and subsequent benefits for cognitive function and mental health can't be overstated, either.

Sarah Kremen, MD, Sarah Kremen, MD, is director of the Neurobehavior Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “Episodic memory is remembering events that have happened, places you’ve ...

Researchers sought to find a non-pharmaceutical approach to improving episodic memory in late adulthood—and while their meta-analysis, which looked at 36 studies totaling 2,750 participant, was in no ...

Want to preserve all those precious memories, including your first kiss and how you felt the first time you got behind the wheel of a car? If you do, start moving: New research shows that when ...