Keeping busy is widely regarded as important for maintaining cognitive fidelity and overall brain health. However, stay-at-home orders and rising unemployment during the current pandemic have made this particularly challenging.
Underscoring the importance of mental activity to brain health, researchers at Tel Aviv Medical Center led by Prof. Einor Ben Assayag recently found a link between occupational status and cognitive …
read moreA newly published report from researchers at McGill University and a multinational team, including investigators from the University of Bristol and Harvard Medical School, evaluated the relationship between childhood growth trajectory and cognitive ability in a large, population-based cohort.
In the study, 12,368 children born at term were followed up with cognitive assessment at ages 6.5 and 16 years. According …
read moreIs it possible to reverse the cognitive decline that inevitably accompanies healthy aging? Though not quite the proverbial fountain of youth, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) may do the trick.
According to a new paper published in the journal Aging, three months of oxygen therapy may lead to sizeable improvement in cognitive function and associated increases in cerebral blood flow …
read moreThe Mediterranean diet incorporates the traditional cuisine of countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It is typically high in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds, and olive oil. In the 1960s it was observed that coronary heart disease caused fewer deaths in Mediterranean countries like Greece and Italy than in the U.S. and northern Europe. Later on, the Mediterranean …
read moreNewly published research in the journal Cell reported that neuronal knockdown of the CCR5 gene, implicated in learning/memory and uniquely expressed in cortical neurons after stroke, leads to early recovery of motor control. The groundbreaking study also demonstrated that administration of CCR5 antagonist devised for HIV produces similar effects on motor recovery post stroke and cognitive recovery post TBI. Critically, …
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