The blood-brain barrier is a defense system that isolates the brain from harmful substances present in the blood. Over time, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - If you're having trouble getting to sleep or just sleeping in general, help might be available from an unsuspecting place. That's right, exercise. Sleep specialists say even just a ...

Decades of research has found that exercise is helpful for overall health and fitness, doing everything from lowering your risk of heart disease to helping you sleep better. According to a new study, ...

What should we do in order to live healthier lives for longer? Research shows there are a few lifestyle interventions that can effectively prolong our life and health span. One of these is exercise, ...

Fresh insight into how regular movement protects the body from aging comes from a long-running study published in Cell. The work, led by scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Xuanwu ...

If you aren’t already convinced that exercise is the best way to improve health outcomes as you age, there is now even more evidence to bolster that case. Chinese researchers published a sweeping new ...

Of all the small things that could link exercise and cognitive function, blinking could be key to understanding the correlation. Recent research from the University of Tsukuba (Japan), led by Hideaki ...

Something happens when a rat starts running. Not just the obvious things, the faster heart, the warming muscles, the rhythmic percussion of paws against the wheel. Something quieter. Something that ...

Shakespeare's "fair youth" Sonnet 30 captures the essence of what it's like to recall episodic memories. The opening stanza says, "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance ...

A new study adds to growing evidence that exercise is an important part of preventing one of America’s deadliest cancers. By Talya Minsberg In recent years, one of the most provocative questions in ...

When a person exercises so much that it negatively affects their physical or mental health, or disrupts other aspects of their life, health experts call this compulsive exercise. Compulsive exercise ...