How our brains slow the effects of aging
A team of researchers observed older and younger people while they completed a categorization task and found that the way we categorize things changes with age....
read moreHealthy diet boosts kids’ reading skills
A study of 161 kids between 6 and 8 years old found that those who ate a healthy diet had better reading skills in the first three years of school....
read moreBrain benefitted by exercise—unless there’s been mercury exposure...
Although for most people, aerobic exercise increases cognitive processing and short-term memory, people exposed to high levels of mercury before birth do not reap the same benefits from aerobic exercise....
read moreResearch on triggering of lysozyme may provide new Alzheimer’s treatment...
Investigators have discovered that Alzheimer’s triggers an increased expression of lysozyme, an enzyme that attempts to counteract the build-up of amyloids in the brain caused by the disease....
read moreThe brain concentrates on one thing at a time
Researchers from Linkoping University have found that when we are busy with something that requires us to use sight—such as driving, the brain reduces hearing to make it easier for us....
read moreMaking memories stronger and more precise as we age
A study published in Neuron explains how a team of scientists found that they could bias the competition between old neurons and new ones in the hippocampus to favor the new ones being generated....
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