These days, fatigue is a familiar companion for many. A new study offers some good news in our increasingly over-scheduled, under-rested, 24/7 world – you can bank sleep, and store it up for a tiring event in the future.
This finding comes from work in the U.S. on a group of volunteers who [...]
Eating a diet that’s high in healthy fats, limits dairy and meats isn’t just good for your heart, some new research suggests it might also be very good for your mind.
Following a Mediterranean style diet helps lower the risk of developing small areas of dead tissue that have been linked to thinking [...]
Sunday, February 21, 2010
If you spend time with people who have self control, you can expect your own level of control to be pretty strong according to research published online in the December 15, 2009 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
The opposite is also true – Spending time with those who don’t have much in the way of self-control [...]
A pair of new studies, both appearing in the January 2010 issue of the Archives of Neurology find that exercise improves mild cognitive impairment, and may even help to prevent the decline in the first place.
The research teams found that those who did moderate exercise in midlife (or later) had a reduced risk of mild [...]
If you added a Wii, PlayStation or Xbox 360 to your home this year, you’re certainly not alone. According to Nielsen figures, 54% of U.S. households now own a video game console or a handheld system.
But before you berate yourself for giving in to your kids passion for video games, or worry when you hear [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
A new year and the start of a new decade… it’s a natural time to make resolutions for the future.
If you want to change your eating habits, relationships with others, work situation or something else as the new year begins, experts have ten common sense suggestions that will help you set goals that are realistic, [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Though ginkgo biloba has a reputation for helping memory and brain function, the widely popular dietary supplement has yet to prove itself with hard and fast research.
Despite this, in 2007 Americans spent $107 million on ginkgo. When the herb first became popular in the 1980s and 1990s, everyone (researchers and the rest of us) was [...]
Thursday, October 8, 2009
New Mexican researchers report that brain training exercises, specifically playing the video game Tetris may actually up the amount of grey matter you have in your brain. The study appears in the open access peer-reviewed scientific journal BMC Research Notes and is one of the first to use two different imaging techniques [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
A new study in the August 25, 2009 issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, tells of the importance of reducing high bloodpressure and links high blood pressure to loss of cognitive function in those over 45 years old.
Every 10-point increase in diastolic (bottom number) blood pressure [...]
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Carrying extra weight isn’t just bad for our bodies and self image, but those extra pounds (just a few or more) may well have an impact on how much brain tissue you have, and how old that tissue looks.
Results of brain scans show “severe” signs of brain damage or deteriation in otherwise [...]
