LearningRx.org - Part 32

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Gibson Institute of Cognitive Research Opens...

Posted by @dminiStr on Aug 1, 2014

Traumatic Brain Injury: Damaged Neural Connections Can Be Rewired...

Posted by @dminiStr on Jun 17, 2013

Look who's talking about brain training. The New York Times. Read more.

“The Brain Trainers” (New York Times feature article)...

Posted by Wendy Burt on Nov 4, 2012

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Maternal Stress May Affect Baby’s Brain Development

Nov 7, 2019 by Wendy Burt

Researchers from King’s College London have found that maternal stress before and during pregnancy may affect the baby’s brain development. They found that, in stressed pregnant women, there was evidence of impaired development in the white matter tract in...

Food Comas May Help Preserve Long-term Memory

Nov 5, 2019 by Wendy Burt

Although most of us probably think of food comas as something that shuts down our brain, new research from New York University has found that food comas may actually help us to form long-term memories....

Habitual Tea Drinking Makes the Brain More Efficient

Oct 31, 2019 by Wendy Burt

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...

Blood Thinner May Delay Alzheimer’s

Oct 31, 2019 by Wendy Burt

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...

Slow Walkers Have Older Brain and Bodies at 45

Oct 29, 2019 by Wendy Burt

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...

Microglia May Offer New Alzheimer’s Target Treatment

Oct 24, 2019 by Wendy Burt

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...

Fluctuating blood pressure may hasten cognitive decline

Oct 22, 2019 by Wendy Burt

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....