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Study: Cognitive Decline Sets In as Early as Age 45
Our brains become less sharp as we age, but when does the decline actually start? You might be surprised
Study: Blood Pressure Drug May Treat Senior Moments
A drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat high blood pressure may have an equally important effect on brain function, according to new research in monkeys.
How Brain Training Can Boost Intelligence
Could a simple memory workout make you smarter? An intriguing new study by researchers at the University of Michigan suggests it can — a finding that adds a wrinkle to the prevailing notion that IQ is largely fixed by genes.
To Improve Your Memory, Take a Cue From the Grand Masters
How good is your memory? Your answer probably depends on how well you perform everyday tasks of remembering: the name of the new neighbor down the hall, where you put your car keys, your niece’s birthday, or perhaps the …
House Watch: What If You Could Remember Every Detail of Your Life?
Last night’s House M.D. focused on the case of Nadia, a 33-year-old woman who can recall every moment of her life with perfect clarity. She waitresses at a diner, where she falls over one day, unable to move her legs. So which …
The Lab Rat: How to Improve Memory in 15 Minutes
Stories about brain research can get a little boring if you just cite an endless stream of academic papers and statistics. So welcome to Healthland’s latest feature: The Lab Rat.
Active youth linked to lower risk for cognitive decline
A new study analyzing physical activity at different phases of life for more than 9,000 elderly women finds that routine exercise at any age was associated with a reduced risk for cognitive decline or dementia, but that regular physical activity during teenage years was most strongly linked to a lower risk for mental deterioration later
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Alzheimer’s: new methods for diagnosis, preserving memory?
In the ongoing effort to better understand, diagnose, treat and hopefully one day even prevent the devastating mental decline of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers are taking a broad range of approaches — and some are even finding clues in unlikely places. As the New York Times reports, a new technique that combines a dye and brain scan
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Spouses of dementia patients at higher risk themselves
Compared with other aging married individuals whose husbands or wives do not suffer from dementia, those whose spouses are diagnosed with the condition are six times more likely to develop dementia themselves, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Researchers suggest that the stress
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NIH says science is lacking for Alzheimer’s prevention
A new report fro the National Institutes of Health suggests that, currently, there is not enough rigorous scientific evidence to suggest any surefire ways of preventing Alzheimer’s disease. While small studies have suggested that everything from crossword puzzles to routine exercise can help stave off cognitive decline, the national
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Can dreams be a study tool?
Dreaming about tomorrow’s big presentation, or how you’ll tackle certain questions on an exam later this week may seem like a sign that your anxiety over the pending challenge has seeped its way into your subconscious—yet, according to new research published in the journal Cell Biology dreaming about something you’ve learned may
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Making memories may be in the timing
Why is it that most of us can remember our precise surroundings the moment that we first learned of JFK’s assassination, the Challenger explosion or the fall of the Twin Towers, but not say, what grocery aisle we were standing in when the phone call came to remind us to pick up milk? What is it about the timing—or more specifically,
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