A European study of 12,000 people age 50 and older found that things like lay-offs, enforced part-time work and downward job mobility appear to decrease cognitive ability, including things like memory, verbal fluency, temporal orientation and numeracy....
read moreResearchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that postmenopausal estrogen declines are unrelated to changes in mood or cognitive ability. On a separate note, they did find that there may be a link between progesterone levels and...
read moreIn 1979, PCBs were banned in the U.S., but its effects are still showing up in seniors in the form of lower cognitive performance....
read moreA new study has found that patients who developed delirium while in the hospital had a 25 percent chance of dying within 30 days. Delirium is a reversible cognitive condition that appears similar to dementia....
read moreNew research mapping the typical bird brain showed how similar they are to the typical human brain. Regions of the brain that deal with high-level cognition (e.g. long-term memory and problem solving) are wired to other areas of the...
read moreIf you’re thirsty, drinking water can improve your performance on tasks that require you to respond quickly. But for complex-rule-learning tasks, performance appears to actually decrease slightly after drinking water. It’s not yet been determined why water helps some...
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