Researchers measured acetylcholine production in participants' brains at the beginning and end of the 10-week trial.

A new McGill study reveals that specific online brain training can upregulate key brain chemistry, reversing age-related ...

In animal models, social isolation triggers memory and learning deficits that are mediated by hyperactivity of the most abundant brain cell, the astrocyte. Importantly, inhibiting this hyperactivity ...

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that ...

The delivery of chemical messenger (neurotransmitter) receptors to the junctions between nerve cells (synapses) is crucial to cognitive processes such as memory. One way of understanding the function ...

A German-American research team headed by Prof. Dr. Bernd Fakler from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Freiburg demonstrated the major influence of Noelin1-3 proteins on learning and ...

Playing certain brain-training games may boost production of a neurotransmitter responsible for attention and focus, ...

Here is an important reason to stay in touch with friends and family: social isolation causes memory and learning deficits and other behavioral changes. Many brain studies have focused on the effects ...