High fitness may slash dementia risk for women
A study published in Neurology has found that women who are very physically fit may also have a greatly decreased risk of dementia....
read moreAdult brains make no new memory cells
Research from the University of California, San Francisco found that the human hippocampus stops making new cells in childhood....
read moreHigh cholesterol in late life may mean better brain health
Although subjects in a new study who were ages 75 to 84 and had high cholesterol than they did in midlife had a 50% higher risk of marked cognitive decline, the opposite was true for those ages 85 to...
read moreHead injuries may lead to early Alzheimer’s
A new study published in the journal Neuropsychology appears to confirm the link between concussions and neurodegenerative diseases....
read moreBoosting the brain’s immune cells may stop Alzheimer’s...
Two new studies published in the journal Neuron suggest that immune cells in the brain may help create future treatments for Alzheimer’s....
read moreNew study finds we can learn in our sleep
Researchers have discovered that when people were shown pictures with associated words, those words that were played while they slept were easier to remember thanks to the triggering of sleep spindles in the participants’ brains....
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