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Chocolate milk study claims cognitive improvement in h.s. athletes...

Feb 29, 2016 by

The University of Maryland has released the results of a study that claims chocolate milk can assist in improving cognitive function and motor skills in high school athletes, even those that are suffering from concussions....

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Calorie cutting may help obese people with thinking problems

Feb 26, 2016 by

A new study indicates that older obese people with mild cognitive impairment who lose a small amount of weight may see some improvement on tests of thinking skills....

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Scientists develop first portable, wearable brain monitoring system...

Feb 24, 2016 by

Bioengineers and cognitive scientists came together to take brain activity monitoring out of the lab and on the go with a 64-channel system....

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First autopsy-confirmed case of CTE to include neuropsychological testing...

Feb 21, 2016 by

A 25-year-old football player with CTE who had 10 concussions beginning at age 8 provided the first autopsy-confirmed CTE case in which researchers could include neuropsychological testing to document the type of cognitive issues that were present....

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Improving your toddler’s memory now has long-term benefits

Feb 18, 2016 by

New research found that preschoolers who scored lower on memory tasks are likely to score higher on a dropout risk scale at age 12....

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Consuming B-GOS carb complex during infancy may provide brain benefits into adulthood...

Feb 15, 2016 by

Rats given B-GOS from 3 to 21 days after birth had better brains weeks later than those that didn’t consume it....

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TBI produces the same mental impairments as Alzheimer’s

Feb 12, 2016 by

Researchers isolated a toxic form of tau protein from animals that had experienced a TBI then injected into other animals and found that they developed the same type of mental impairments caused by Alzheimer’s....

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