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Habitual Tea Drinking Makes the Brain More Efficient

Oct 31, 2019 by

Habitual Tea Drinking Makes the Brain More Efficient

Researchers recruited health participants and looked at their tea-drinking habits to determine if consuming tea had any effect on functional and/or structural networks in the brain. They found that although there were no significant effects on the hemispheric asymmetry...

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Blood Thinner May Delay Alzheimer’s

Oct 31, 2019 by

Blood Thinner May Delay Alzheimer’s

A team of investigators from New York and Span found than an existing blood thinner may help delay the development of Alzheimer’s disease. The study was done on mice but the scientists found that that just one year’s treatment...

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Slow Walkers Have Older Brain and Bodies at 45

Oct 29, 2019 by

Slow Walkers Have Older Brain and Bodies at 45

Your walking speed at age 45 can serve as a marker for accelerating aging. In fact, researcher found that people who walk slowly at age 45 also tended to have worse teeth, lungs and immune systems than their age-similar...

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Microglia May Offer New Alzheimer’s Target Treatment

Oct 24, 2019 by

Microglia May Offer New Alzheimer’s Target Treatment

Researchers studying mice have a new theory about Alzheimer’s: that microglia (a type of brain immune cell) drives the tissue damage that is linked to tau clumping. These findings might offer a new approach to delaying the dementia that’s...

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Fluctuating blood pressure may hasten cognitive decline

Oct 22, 2019 by

Fluctuating blood pressure may hasten cognitive decline

A team of scientists from the NILVAD study group looked at data from a variety of European research institutions and found that fluctuations in blood pressure correlate with a faster rate of cognitive decline among people with Alzheimer’s....

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Alexithymia may be linked to hyperactivity and impulsivity

Oct 18, 2019 by

Alexithymia may be linked to hyperactivity and impulsivity

Although it sounds like a mental health disorder, alexithymia is simply a term used to describe difficulty identifying and expressing emotions. Although a study from 2013 found a link between alexithymia and ADHD, the correlation only applied to children...

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