What factors affect our brain health? What can we do to protect our brains from premature aging, cognitive decline, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia? Scientists, doctors, patients, and caregivers share insights here about brain health.
Can you train your brain to perform more efficiently? If you’re learning another language or studying how to read music, yes, according to science….
Updated February 2023: If you’ve ever kneaded your frustrations into a stress ball, incessantly clicked the back of a pen over and over again,…
Numerous studies, Healthline, AARP… Look around and you’ll find a flood of articles probing the possibility that the popular Keto Diet has brain health…
Plenty of attention has been paid to the ketogenic diet in recent years: Its supporters have touted its potential health benefits when it comes…
Could getting serious about exercise really have a substantial impact on cognition as we age? Determining exactly how often someone needs to work out…
The connections between the neurons in your brain enable you to do amazing things, from brushing your teeth to solving calculus equations. When these…
Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is missing ‘quite a bit’ of her brain. How can people survive and thrive after brain injury? In a…
Lapses in memory are a fairly normal part of healthy aging. But in the early stages of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s dementia, cognitive changes…
Donald Weaver, a researcher and physician who acts as co-director at the Krembil Brain Institute, provides evidence that Alzheimer’s is a result of the…
The setting could not have been less threatening. I was sitting in the press room on the last day of the Alzheimer’s Association International…
According to experts, we may be living through one of the greatest mass disabling events in history — the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies analyzing the…
Unlike many other parts of the body, the brain changes over time, reorganizing its connections in response to our experiences. When we engage in…
It may be common knowledge that high-sugar, high-fat junk food (think: fried foods, milkshakes, pastries, cakes and cookies) aren’t good for your waistline, but…
When research dropped at this year’s AAIC about the relationship between junk food consumption and brain health, late-night show host Stephen Colbert had a…
Research presented at AAIC found that people whose diets are full of junk food developed cognitive decline faster than those with healthier eating habits….