Forget the "meathead" stereotypes; heavy lower-body training is actually a high-performance fuel injection for your cognitive health and emotional resilience.

Credit: Getty Images Our work suggests that targeting the brain-muscle axis could offer new treatment strategies for muscle fatigue. Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She talks about muscle building as a taboo for women throughout history and touches on how women, especially women in midlife and ...

Studies on the neurons of mice suggest our own human endurance may have more to do with the brain than our physique.

Research reveals how brain inflammation triggers extreme muscle weakness across several diseases, including viral infection, bacterial infection and Alzheimer's disease. The study, in fruit flies and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maintaining muscle might be one way to help prevent dementia, new research suggests. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News ...

A series of recent studies has pinpointed the specific molecules and biological pathways through which physical activity protects the brain from aging, disease, and toxic protein buildup. Researchers ...

Grow your muscle, grow your brain. For decades it’s getting clearer—physical activity leads to more brain cells. But how? And why? A recent paper in Cell Metabolism shows the advantages of ...

Researchers identify brain neurons that become active after exercise and help determine how much endurance improves with repeated training.

Infections and neurodegenerative diseases cause inflammation in the brain. But for unknown reasons, patients with brain inflammation often develop muscle problems that seem to be independent of the ...

New research presented at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting 2025 suggests that having more muscle and less visceral fat may help keep the brain younger as measured by biological ...

Research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reveals how brain inflammation triggers extreme muscle weakness across several diseases, including viral infection, bacterial ...