In 2022, the team at Cortical Labs taught 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish connected to a computer how to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, years later, the same team is leveling up as they claim ...

The crème de la crème of diets? Many eating plans vie to be called the best, such as the Mediterranean diet, which offers several health benefits, and the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) for ...

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer announced his retirement Friday, marking the end of a 25-year career at Xbox (and a nearly 40-year career at Microsoft more broadly). Spencer’s legacy covers a wide ...

Will these people never leave us alone? Researchers have released yet another brain-health study, this one finding that people who played a speed-training video game for a mere 23 hours dramatically ...

Medicine is advancing, but science is yet to land upon a cure for dementia. Currently, there are an estimated 982,000 people living with dementia in the UK, but more than a third of those with the ...

Playing games to train your brain into a better memory may not be just the stuff of bad app-store advertising, according to a new study two decades in the making. Research published in the journal ...

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research. Surprisingly, it wasn’t memory or problem-solving tasks that ...

There’s no shortage of online games and apps that promise to protect brain health and sharpen cognitive function. But despite bold claims, little research has actually proved they work. A new study, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for decades.

A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for decades. Experts say the findings are the strongest evidence yet that cognitive ...

So-called "brain training" games may help guard against Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, a new study suggests. The research found some older adults who completed specific cognitive ...