Your brain might age better if you play a musical instrument or sing in a choir, research has found. Engaging in and creating music in some way has been linked to better brain health in later years of ...

Share on Pinterest According to recent research, playing an instrument may help protect your brain health as you age. Image credit: VICTOR TORRES/Stocksy. Playing an instrument throughout your life ...

I write a blog post each month focusing on a different executive function skill. Executive function skills are brain-based, and they help people accomplish essential life tasks (Dawson and Guare, 2016 ...

This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine. The ability to set a goal and pursue it without getting derailed by temptations or distractions is essential to nearly everything we do in ...

Vulnerability causes people to do some interesting things. For preteens, it often manifests into cutthroat judgment and meanness as defense mechanisms. If you look stupid, then I won’t. Couple that ...

Your working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation are core components of executive function (EF), an interrelated set of mental skills that lay the foundation for advanced cognitive ...