Op-Ed: What I tell my patients—and what I try to practice myself—is this: you don’t need perfection. You just need to move.

A team at the University of California, San Francisco has identified a specific liver-produced enzyme that explains, at the molecular level, how physical exercise protects the aging brain from ...

A UCSF team finds a liver protein, released with exercise, that improves memory in aging and Alzheimer’s disease by repairing the brain’s blood vessels. It's the missing link between exercise and ...

A growing body of research suggests exercise can be beneficial for cognitive health.

Researchers at University of Texas at Dallas found regular physical activity for three months could help ease mood symptoms ...

Data are limited, however. In mice, ingesting exercise mimetics appeared to improve depressive-like behaviors, and the ...

Can brain training “rewire” the brain to prevent dementia? What about repair the brain following an injury? Or turn back the ...

Exercise may sharpen the mind by repairing the brain’s protective shield. Researchers found that physical activity prompts the liver to release an enzyme that removes a harmful protein causing the ...

If you’ve been putting off that morning jog or skipping the gym, you might want to lace up those sneakers sooner rather than later. Scientists have finally zeroed in on the "golden window" where ...

One of the brain’s biggest benefits from exercise – the birth of new neurons – may not even require any movement. Instead, the beneficial “packages” circulating in the blood after working out can be ...

Exercise greatly benefits brain health, improving cognition, mood and reducing the risk of neurodegenerative diseases. Several new studies have demonstrated the profound impact of exercise on various ...