The intensity with which older people react to advertising may make them easier prey for scammers, a new study finds.

Gregory Samanez-Larkin explores how the brain's decision-making machinery changes as we age.

People who are risk-takers in their youth also tend to take relatively more risks than their peers as they age, according to an analysis of more than 44,000 German citizens.

Like most of your daily decisions — the clothes you wear, how often you check email — your financial choices are shaped by psychological, behavioral and neurological factors.

Who would you want your financial advisor to contact if he thinks you’re being scammed or just slipping in cognitive ability? With the increase in elder financial abuse, more firms are rolling out an emergency contact form to have on file if something seems amiss.

Can playing a game make a person smarter, more alert, and better able to learn? Well, the science on that question isn't clear.

With a potential tsunami of elder financial abuse on the horizon, researchers, health care leaders, lawyers, and lawmakers have launched a number of initiatives to better understand the size and scope of the issue and craft strategies to minimize harm.

Many of the most influential financial decision makers in our society from business to politics happen to be middle-aged. Is there some sort of peak of financial reason in the fifties? Recent research in economics, psychology, and neuroscience suggests that there may be.

A brain-mapping study, published in the April 11 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, has found that people’s ability to make decisions in novel situations decreases with age and is associated with a reduction in the integrity of two specific white-matter pathways that connect an area in the cerebral cortex called the medial prefrontal cortex with two other areas deeper in the brain.