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…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release: People with mild vascular disease that causes damage to the retina in the eye are more likely to have problems with thinking and memory skills because they…
From the University of Rochester Medical Center press release: The difficulties that many women describe as memory problems when menopause approaches are real, according to a study published today in the journal Menopause, the journal…
From the Mayo Clinic press release: People with symptoms suggesting rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, or RBD, have twice the risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Parkinson’s disease within four years of…
From the UCLA press release: For every individual who’s a victim of Alzheimer’s — some 5.4 million persons in the United States alone — there’s a related victim: the caregiver. Spouse, son, daughter, other relative or…