Cognitive issues are more common as you age, but a shocking new study finds that these mental complications are jumping up in younger adults. The study, which was published in the journal Neurology in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Glatter is a New York-based physician covering public health. Over the past month or so, the media on both sides of the ...

When people lose their train of thought, they sometimes refer to it as having a "senior moment." But those moments are not so senior after all, and they actually have been rising sharply among young ...

Self-reported feelings of frequent loneliness or lack of close friends as a child or teenager were associated with greater likelihood of cognitive decline and incident dementia in middle-to-late ...

It happens from time to time: You start telling a story, only to lose your train of thought halfway through. Or you walk into a room and can't remember what you went in there to do. Mental glitches ...

Understanding the difference between age-related memory lapses and signs of cognitive decline is essential for early ...

In it, a team of researchers detailed their interviews and chart reviews that evaluated emergency care, cognitive function and referral status. Data was derived from 9,359 older adults (over the age ...

A group of studies, all conducted independently, have reached a similar sobering conclusion: sleep problems—including several common sleep difficulties faced by millions of people on a regular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Our results indicate that changes in general talking speed may reflect changes in the brain," said cognitive neuroscientist Jed ...

Problems with memory and thinking are very common after a stroke. Up to 60% of stroke survivors may have some type of cognitive impairment in the first year after a stroke. Cognitive impairments and ...