Attitudes about getting older can actually change the quality of your retirement, new research finds.

We become forgetful as we age. This is often seen as a universal truth, but in fact it is far from universal: some people ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu A 12-year national study reveals that aging need not mean decline. Researchers show that many older ...

Memories rarely arrive as an unbroken stream. The brain quietly divides life into segments: entering a room, starting a conversation, or watching a new scene unfold.

Age is more than just one number. While neuroscientists used to think of cognitive aging as a single trendline, they now ...

A large longitudinal study challenges the idea that aging inevitably brings decline, revealing that many older adults improve in key measures of physical and cognitive health.

Although we've all experienced the sensation of "eating" with our eyes and noses before food meets mouth, much less is known about the information superhighway, known as the vagus nerve, that sends ...

Comparing six diets, a new study found that the DASH diet in particular showed the strongest link to helping lower cognitive ...

"A meaningful percentage of the older participants that we studied got better." ...

Superagers’ memory capacity rivals that of younger adults. A new study suggests their brains’ robust production of new neurons may be why.

Loneliness and social isolation significantly accelerate subjective cognitive decline in women during the perimenopause transition.

Researchers find that nearly half of adults over 65 show cognitive and physical improvements, driven largely by positive beliefs about aging.