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Cognitive Enhancement
One of the toughest vocational exams in the world requires candidates to memorize 25,000 streets in an area five times the size of Manhattan.
Living longer is only half the equation. Here’s how to stay healthier for more of those years.
"We are racing towards a new era in which we outsource cognitive abilities that are central to our identity as thinking beings," writes computer scientist Louis Rosenberg.
Memory takes effort, and our brains know it.
"Mainstream computing will start to shift from a race to develop increasingly powerful tools to a race to develop increasingly powerful abilities."
Could exercise be more effective than recently approved drugs?
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Exercise neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki explains how your brain can age gracefully and optimally — and it starts with just a 10-minute walk.
Modern memory athletes use this ancient technique to memorize thousands of digits of pi.
Who’s afraid of utopia? AI doubters have cold feet. History can warm them.
Neuroscientists hope to learn more in the hope of finding a way to reverse dementia.
Our brainwaves naturally synchronize with external stimuli like flickering lights. Here's how the phenomenon might boost learning.
The study was small and didn't include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.
In a study involving mice, scientists used two different techniques — one optogenetic and one pharmacologic — to recover "lost" memories.
The "love hormone" might be an unexplored treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
It's time for Tetris.
Athletes often use creatine to boost performance and aid muscle recovery. Accumulating evidence suggests it could also help with depression.
But don't buy your own brain zapping machine, yet.
The phenomenon of “digital dementia” might not be real after all.
Noradrenaline-targeting drugs, including blood pressure, depression, and ADHD meds, improve Alzheimer's disease symptoms.
Humans are already so integrated with technology that the dream of transhumanism is a reality. Can we handle what comes next?
Until recently, video games were accused of killing brain cells. Now, researchers are trying to understand how they help players get smarter.
The plant-like sea creatures contain a molecule that improves memory, learning, and even hair quality, according to a new study in mice.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we'll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
Are we really only a moment away from "The Singularity," a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?