Deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the central lateral nucleus of the thalamus led to cognitive improvements in people with long-term deficits due to traumatic brain injury (TBI), a pilot study showed.

This is why acalculia, a neurological condition that impairs the ability to process and understand numbers, can have a devastating effect on a person’s life. The condition commonly afflicts people who ...

Traumatic brain injury’s (TBI) after-effects can show up months and years after a long-forgotten head injury from a car accident, a fall, sport-related head injury, etc. Often overlooked in ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that traumatic brain injuries, known as TBIs, were the second most common injury among adults treated in U.S. emergency rooms for injuries related to ...

While science has made it clear that regular exercise is important for your health, it can be tricky to find time to squeeze in workouts—especially with a full to-do list. But a new massive study ...

Older adults, who were trained at home daily for 12 weeks using a digital trail-making peg test device improved their manual dexterity and cognitive functioning. Among the many harmful effects of ...

Your brain might age better if you play a musical instrument or sing in a choir, research has found. Engaging in and creating music in some way has been linked to better brain health in later years of ...

This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine. The ability to set a goal and pursue it without getting derailed by temptations or distractions is essential to nearly everything we do in ...

At what age does an adolescent start thinking as an adult? A new study published this week in Nature Communications presents some of the first definitive evidence that executive function - a set of ...