Cognitive functioning affects how people think and their ability to remember things. Impairment in this area of brain health may cause a decline in how someone responds to their environment mentally ...

This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01-MH114877; R01-AG063775) and a gift from an individual philanthropist, all to Robert M. G. Reinhart, Ph.D., Associate ...

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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 ...

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If this presidential cycle has unified us on anything, it might be that cognitive decline is a hard thing to talk about. Both President Biden and former President Trump face plenty of criticism, ...