Anne M. Birkam comes by her love of crossword puzzles quite naturally. "My dad did them when I was a kid," said the cataloger at Hoyt Public Library in Saginaw. "I don't do the Saturday one in The New ...

There's a quiet movement going on, and it doesn't involve apps, data or the latest fad. Following the lead of vinyl record albums, coloring books and traditional board games, jigsaw puzzles are seeing ...

Brain shrinkage has been linked to Alzheimer's disease through research that shows the brain begins to shrink years before symptoms of the devastating disease appear. But, a new study finds exercise ...

WAVERLY - For Alice Lageschulte, life is a journey in black and white. There is no winding path, only across and down. For years she has worked at least two and sometimes three crossword puzzles a day ...

Solving puzzles exercises your brain just as working out in a gym exercises your body. Physician Richard Restak and game designer Scott Kim believe that a good mental workout -- like any well-designed ...

Regular physical exercise appears to protect the brain from shrinking, an otherwise natural process in old age that is associated with memory and thinking problems. Conversely, mentally and socially ...

We are hardly ever consciously aware that we use logic to solve everyday problems. But what is logic? Is the logic used to prove theorems in mathematics the same kind that we use for our practical ...

I do the New York Times crossword puzzle. Well, Monday’s and Tuesday’s anyway. I make lists about all kinds of subjects, like, What are my favorite country Christmas songs? And I prefer to construct ...