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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.

Violinists, surgeons and gamers can benefit from physical exercise both before and after practicing their new skills. The same holds true for anyone seeking to improve their fine motor skills. This is ...

A University of Iowa-led research team has documented in humans that physical exercise sparks an increase in brain waves ...

Older adults may not be thinking about high-intensity interval training (HIIT) when they think about their brain health, but a study published Feb. 17 in NPJ Science of Learning found it can improve ...

A single exercise session increased electrical activity in a brain region tied to learning and memory, a first-of-its-kind ...

A new kind of course at Atlanta’s Emory University is getting students’ gears turning…in more ways than one.

Throughout Southern California, this back-to-school time has been like no other. With local COVID-19 metrics not meeting the standards for face-to-face instruction, distance learning is a fact of life ...

In a recent study published in the journal NPJ Science of Learning, researchers investigated the impacts of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) on the subsequent motor skill acquisition efficiency ...