Tsukuba, Japan—Listening to rhythmic music, particularly music with a pronounced groove, elicits a heightened sense of excitement, prompting individuals to instinctively move their bodies in sync with ...

Getting fit amplifies the brain’s response to workouts, triggering bursts of a growth protein BDNF that strengthens neural ...

What if every time you trained, your brain didn’t just benefit—but improved its ability to benefit even more next time?

My neuroscientist father was always quick to admit that despite decades of brain research, he still didn't really know how certain lifestyle choices and daily habits improved or diminished cognitive ...

Researchers from Waseda University investigated the effects of seven types of light-intensity, short-duration exercises and found that all exercises, except static stretching with monotonous movements ...

The connection between physical movement and brain function has emerged as one of neuroscience’s most significant discoveries. The human brain, despite representing only 2% of body weight, consumes ...

Cognitive functions, also known as intellectual functions, encompass thinking, understanding, memory, language, computation, and judgment, and are performed in the cerebrum. The prefrontal cortex (PFC ...