A recent study provides evidence that inhaling a specific blend of essential oils may improve cognitive performance in healthy adults. The research indicates that while this aromatic blend increases ...

Sleeping nine hours or more per night is associated with worse cognitive performance, and it is even more the case for those with depression. There might be such a thing as getting too much of a good ...

Mental fatigue is a psychobiological state that arises from prolonged periods of demanding cognitive activity. It is characterised by a diminished capacity to sustain focused attention, slowed ...

The more unmet social determinants of health, the greater risk of lower cognitive performance in that person, a study finds. The report was published on Jan. 10 in BMC Geriatrics. Investigators ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — When it comes to sleep, traditional advice has focused on the number of hours a person sleeps. But for older adults, the quality of sleep may affect cognitive performance the ...

An association between oral microbiota and cognitive performance in schizophrenia has been reported by researchers at Science Tokyo. By analyzing saliva samples and cognitive test scores from patients ...

A large-scale study published in Brain and Behavior has found that some widely used medications may have subtle but meaningful associations with cognitive performance—both positive and negative—when ...

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A longitudinal cohort study showed that a higher amyloid-beta (Aβ) load in centenarians was associated with poorer cognitive performance, particularly executive functioning. Two thirds of centenarians ...

In today’s fast-paced business world, CEOs and all C-suite professionals are required to make critical decisions daily—decisions that can define the future of their companies. The ability to think ...