Joe Biden and Donald Trump are, respectively, the oldest and second oldest presidents in American history. As both attack each other over their mental acuity in the 2024 election, they have also ...

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term that describes the discomfort you feel when your beliefs don’t line up with your actions. Or it could refer to the tension of holding two conflicting ...

Doctors explain the signs to look for, and how to get evaluated. By Dana G. Smith Mike Davis’s mother died from Alzheimer’s disease in 2008. So when Mr. Davis started noticing that he was having an ...

Concerns about age and mental fitness have been a recurring theme through the past two presidencies and are set to only mount in 2024 with two frontrunner candidates nearing or exceeding the age of 80 ...

MBCT combines two research-backed approaches: mindfulness practices and cognitive therapy. Mindfulness is a practice involving awareness of one’s internal state and surroundings, according to the ...

The brain's ability to adapt and form new neural connections allows it to recover from injury and maintain cognitive function into old age. Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to adapt and ...

Political opponents, armchair pundits and even nervous supporters are demanding that President Joe Biden undergo such testing after his dismal debate performance – even though his physician says he ...

Imagine waking up to the news that a deadly new strain of flu has emerged in your city. Health officials are downplaying it, but social media is flooded with contradictory claims from “medical experts ...

Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Its goal is to help people process traumatic events while challenging and changing ...

Peter O'Sullivan is a Director and consults at bodylogic.physio. He receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. JP Caneiro is a Director and consults at bodylogic.physio.

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...