Why do humans prefer a simple shortcut over a more complex solution? Researchers have found the answer in our brains.

A species of wood-eating fungus didn’t need a brain to pass a cognitive test with flying colors, and researchers say this ...

Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have ...

Short-term menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) did not have long-term cognitive effects when given to women in early ...

Four years of hormone replacement therapy to help women deal with menopausal symptoms causes no harm to the brain, eve ...

Reducing worry can be difficult, especially if worry has become habitual, but theer are ways to chip away at it and replace ...

Researchers determined that participants with a history of cannabis use experienced "significantly less cognitive decline" ...

Investors who don’t realize they’ve had a severe memory loss event experience significantly larger drops in wealth than those ...

Research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has identified several community-level factors that may increase people’s risk of experiencing cognitive impairment.

The research was led by Dr Eike Buabang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Professor Claire Gillan in the School of Psychology and has been published as a paper, Leveraging cognitive ...

A new meta-analysis by researchers in Finland finds that athletes tend to have better working memory than others.