How Your Brain Looks When You Exercise Vs. When You Don't

Here's what you can do now to protect your brain in your 40s, 50s, and beyond.

Scientists Say This Is the Only Brain Game in a 20-Year Study That Lowered Dementia Risk by 25%

It’s easy to add to your routine, too.

Best exercises: Hyderabad-based doctor lists 4 ways lifting weights can help reverse brain ageing

Many people strength train thinking only of building biceps and muscles, but a top neurologist explained how it can be ...

6 Expert Habits to Keep Your Mind Sharp From Neuroscientist Dr. Majid Fotuhi

The Johns Hopkins professor recommends some tips you may know—and a few that might surprise you—to keep your brain firing on ...

As Florida ages, 9 questions you may have about how to avoid dementia

Science’s success at staving off death from heart disease or cancer has made another diagnosis more likely: Dementia.
Opinion

I’ve seen some bizarre exercises online. If I were an influencer, this is the one workout I’d recommend

Forget snake yoga. All it takes to increase your life expectancy is factoring a set of simple exercises into your weekly routine, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the Universit ...
Nature

How an exercise-activated enzyme helps to keep the brain young

A protein reinforces the blood–brain barrier, which becomes leaky with age. Exercise prevents brain ageing and memory loss by strengthening the blood–brain barrier, the structure that keeps harmful ...

Aging Makes the Brain Leaky but Exercise Fights Back

When mice exercise, their livers release GPLD1 into the bloodstream. The enzyme travels to the blood vessels surrounding the brain and removes TNAP from the surface of those cells. By trimming away ...
Psychology Today

Can Exercise Help Depression? What to Know

A large review adds weight to an old idea: movement can help ease depression. Here’s how to think about exercise as part of treatment and recovery.