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Boosting learning and memory while you sleep—with scents

Mar 3, 2020 by

Boosting learning and memory while you sleep—with scents

New research has found that the strategic use of certain scents while learning and during sleep appears to improve exam performance. The results showed that using fragrance can work in everyday life—not just in a clinical setting....

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Dementia affects English and Italian speakers differently

Feb 25, 2020 by

Dementia affects English and Italian speakers differently

A small study from a team at the University of California looked at dementia-related language problems in English-speaking and Italian-speaking patients. They found that while the English speakers had difficulty pronouncing words, the Italian speakers simply opted for shorter,...

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Brain volume not always tied to memory, thinking

Feb 13, 2020 by

Brain volume not always tied to memory, thinking

A German research tea look at the brains of 330 older adults and found that the size of the hippocampus is only beneficial to people who also have more white-matter circuitry to link it to the rest of the...

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Immune cells do maintenance on the brain during sleep

Feb 6, 2020 by

Immune cells do maintenance on the brain during sleep

Although previous has shown us that the brain clears up waste and updates memories during sleep, new research has found that specialized immune cells are hard at work in the brain during sleep too....

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Fasting may benefit the brain

Jan 30, 2020 by

Fasting may benefit the brain

A recent article in The New England Journal of Medicine reports that intermittent fasting may benefits the brain by decreasing blood pressure, resting heart rates and blood lipid levels. More specifically, intermittent fasting “augments associative, spatial and working memory...

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Heavy metal exposure combined with Alzheimer’s gene may impair cognition...

Jan 16, 2020 by

Heavy metal exposure combined with Alzheimer’s gene may impair cognition

Researchers from the environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health study’s mice to see what could trigger the symptoms of cognitive decline. They found that heavy metal exposure to cadmium, combined with...

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Belly fat may decrease mental flexibility with age

Jan 14, 2020 by

Belly fat may decrease mental flexibility with age

A study out of Iowa State University found that fluid intelligence tended to decrease with age in people with more abdominal fat. The study, which was done on thousands of middle-aged and older people, found that more body fat...

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