From the American Chemical Society (ACS) press release via Newswise: Just as the familiar sugar in food can be bad for the teeth and waistline, another sugar has been implicated as a health menace and…
From the AFTAU press release: Dementia — an acute loss of cognitive ability — can be marked by memory loss, decreased attention span, and disorientation. It occurs in severe disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Despite…
From the University of Montreal press release: Your mother had a doctor’s appointment for a memory test. The results are conclusive: she presents with the first signs of Alzheimer type dementia. Now, to get to…
From the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release via AlphaGalileo: A study that is published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics addresses the issue of specific neuropsychological assets that can predict completion…
From the University of Buffalo press release via EurekAlert!: According to one of the leading scholars in the field, there is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans’ conscious metacognition…
From the UC San Francisco press release: Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia may spread within nerve networks in the brain by moving directly between connected neurons, instead of in other ways proposed by…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release: A new study suggests that older people may have an increased risk of problems with memory and thinking abilities after being in the hospital, according to research…
From the University of Southern California press release via EurekAlert!: A team of researchers that includes a USC scientist has methodically demonstrated that a face’s features or constituents – more than the face per se…
From the Yale University press release: The aging brain loses its ability to recognize when it is time to move on to a new task, explaining why the elderly have difficulty multi-tasking, Yale University researchers…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison press release by Jill Sakai: Odds are, you’re not going to make it all the way through this article without thinking about something else. In fact, studies have found that…