From the BMJ-British Medical Journal media release: A political drive, led by the UK and US, to screen older people for minor memory changes (often called mild cognitive impairment or pre-dementia) is leading to unnecessary…
From the University of California – Davis Health System media release: The degeneration of a small, wishbone-shaped structure deep inside the brain may provide the earliest clues to future cognitive decline, long before healthy older…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) media release: Prosopagnosia (face blindness) may be temporarily improved following inhalation of the hormone oxytocin. This is the finding of research led by Dr Sarah Bate and Dr Rachel…
From the Salk Institute for Biological Studies media release: Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 26 million people worldwide. It is predicted to skyrocket as boomers age — nearly 106 million people are projected to have…
From the University of Exeter media release: The first systematic review of related research confirms a positive impact on cognitive function, but an inconsistent effect on mild cognitive impairment. Over recent years many pieces of…
From the New York University media release: A team of neuroscientists has found a key to the reduction of forgetting. Their findings, which appear in the journal Neuron, show that the better the coordination between two…
From the Columbia University Medical Center media release: A team of Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers, led by Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel, MD, has found that deficiency of a protein called RbAp48 in…
From the University of Alabama at Birmingham media release: Key details of the way nerve cells in the brain remember pleasure are revealed in a study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers published…
From the University of California – Santa Barbara media release: If you think your inability to concentrate is a hopeless condition, think again — and breathe, and focus. According to a study by researchers at…
From the American Academy of Neurology media release: New research suggests that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease associated with repeat brain trauma including concussions in athletes, may affect people in two major ways:…