Just-published research in the Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences shows that volunteering and similar social activities are helpful in staving off mental decline in later years, and can actually improve cognition.

The recent publication of a study showing that performing mental exercises improves subjects' ability to perform those tasks, even years later, has caused a flurry of interest in brain fitness. (See New Evidence for Brain Fitness.) Today,…

A new study led by Sherry Willis, a human-development professor at Penn State University, appears to provide more evidence that brain training can affect cognitive decline associated with aging. The study provided some subjects with brain…

It's been a while since we posted Marketing Neuroscience: Brain Fitness, and I've noticed that interest in the entire brain fitness and cognitive enhancement area seems to be heating up. I was reminded of that after seeing a few television…

A new study shows that being in poor physical condition may increase the risk for dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and being fit may stave off the onset of these conditions.

A Wall Street Journal article describes a study that refutes the claim that mental activity is itself a defense against cognitive decline.

Usually we talk about neuroscience marketing here, i.e., improving marketing using brain science (aka neuromarketing). But, to engage in a verbal contortion, what about marketing brain improvement with science? That's exactly what…

Various pundits suggest that one of the hot trends in the early part of the 21st century will be "brain fitness".

Back in March, I predicted a fitness boom following a huge Newsweek cover story on exercise and the brain (Brain Improvement to Spark Fitness Boom). I'm still waiting. My own health club hasn't had an observable influx of older members…

Marketers, start your engines… a new fitness boom is about to begin. Neuroscience is back in the spotlight again, this time on the front cover of Newsweek in an article titled Stronger, Faster, Smarter. The article reports on work being…