Volunteering and helping friends and family may protect your brain as you age. A new study from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Massachusetts Boston found that regularly ...

Helping other people has always been framed as a moral choice, but a growing body of research suggests it might also be one of the most practical ways to keep the brain sharp with age. Instead of an ...

A new study finds that lab mice perform a suite of likely innate behaviors towards unconscious mice that help them revive faster. When we humans encounter an unconscious person, we might spring into ...

A new study from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Massachusetts Boston found that regularly helping others—formally or informally—can slow age-related cognitive decline by 15 to ...