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If you are skilled at playing puzzles on your smartphone or tablet, what does it say about how fast you learn new puzzles, or, more broadly, how well you can fo

People who are competent at "near transfer", or skilled ability at similar games, are more likely to also have far transfer skills, meaning a greater ability to focus on daily living activities.

In a cohort study, Maria Foraster and colleagues study associations between exposure to road traffic noise at schools, and trajectories of working memory and inattentiveness among schoolchildren aged 7 to 10 years in Barcelona, Spain.

A history of heavy drinking increases vulnerability to, and the severity of, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and related dementias, with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) identified as the strongest modifiable risk factor for early-onset dementia. Heavy drinking has increased markedly in women over the past 10 years, with mature adult women reporting a 41% increase in heavy drinking days during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This raises concern over the impact of excessive alcohol consumption during mature adulthood on dementia-related outcomes in both the short- and long-term. As a first pass attem...

MIT researchers have identified a circuit in the anterior thalamus that is necessary for remembering how to navigate a maze. This region could offer a promising target for treatments that could help reverse memory loss in older people, without affecting other parts of the brain.