Exposure to cadmium could speed up cognitive impairment, but it's even worse for people with a gene key to Alzheimer's disease.

New research explains why we blurt things out. "...it actually doesn't take very much stress at all before people will say something they might later regret."

Sleep deprivation messes with our 'placekeeping' ability, which makes us make more mistakes on tasks that have more than a few simple steps.

Social and physical changes in the home can help older adults live alone more easily and protect their cognition, researchers say.

Jazz improvisation may get musicians into a flow state and improve cognitive flexibility, researchers report.

Eating a diet that includes more plants and less meat when you're middle aged may delay or prevent cognitive impairment when you get older.

Researchers have found the regions of the brain that help us form and process abstract concepts like "ethics" and "freedom."

The burden of household poverty, rather than trauma and violence, affects child refugees' working memory, researchers say.

Babies may understand counting words far before they can actually count themselves.

Evaluating mild cognitive impairment, considered a precursor to dementia, by sex could potentially change who gets the diagnosis.