Retired NFL players’ brains show unusual activity
A new study published in “Scientific Reports” found that retired American football players have “profound abnormalities” in brain activity....
read moreLearning new skills, specifically, improves cognitive function...
New research indicates that the best activities to keep older people’s minds sharp is something that requires learning a mentally demanding skill. In other words, something new....
read moreGenetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s reduces benefits of red wine...
About 2/3 of people who develop Alzheimer’s have a major genetic risk factor called ApoE4. The protein reduces the anti-aging protein that is targeted by resveratrol, found in red wine....
read moreLess sleep and poor quality sleep linked to Alzheimer’s
A new study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that poorer sleep quality and shorter sleep duration among older adults raised the B-Amyloid burden....
read moreUsing peanut butter to diagnose Alzheimer’s
A graduate student at the University of Florida has found that people with early Alzheimer’s smell better with their right nostril....
read moreNew target found for drugs that help prevent brain cell death...
Scientists have discovered that an orally administered drug-like compound can block a major pathway leading to neurodegeneration in animals....
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