Monthly Archive for October, 2010
Physical Strength Predicts Mortality
Aging gracefully is a challenge for all who are fortunate enough to be given the privilege of growing old. If there was a secret to staying strong and avoiding death as long as possible, someone would have surely discovered it by now. While the secret to successful aging might still elude researchers, new evidence suggests that clinicians can, at least, predict patients that will stay stronger longer.
Can a Tan Stave Off Dementia? Vitamin D and Cognitive Decline
With Alzheimer’s disease affecting 5 million Americans -- a rate that the Alzheimer’s Association warns is ballooning -- public health experts are scrambling for cost-effective ways to combat this deadly disease. While Alzheimer’s medications remain expensive and largely ineffective in preventing or halting disease progression, an unexpected potential weapon has recently emerged. Research published in the The Archives of Internal Medicine found a strong predictive link between circulating levels of vitamin D and cognitive function in the elderly.
Are We Out of Our Minds, or Are They Out of Us?
Neuroscience is an exciting and constantly expanding discipline. It is amazing to know that the collective knowledge about the human brain and how it operates has doubled in the last twenty years. Yet, in spite of this glut of new research and overwhelming preponderance of new information, little is understood about the location of the 'mind'. Is the mind a place in the head? Some thinkers in cognitive science are moving away from the idea that all we are in our heads is an isolated bunch of neurons.
Popular Posts
- The Love Drug
- Women After Sex
- Fatty Acids and Suicide Risk
- Mind Games - Science's Attempts at Thought Control
- Risks of Personalized Medicine
- Is Giftedness Nothing More than Good Genes?
- Intelligence - Are You Holding Back Your Brain?
- Behind the Masks - The Mysteries of Dissociative Identity Disorder
- The NeuroSocial Network
- Inside Your Brain on Holiday
Future Posts
- Drug-Induced Mystical Experience
- Facebook – Coming to a 12-Step Program near You?
Latest Posts
- Therapeutic Analysis of Dreams – A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
- Small Groups Make Women Stupid
- Psychotherapy and Clinical Boundaries
- The Brain’s Buying Power
- Aging Intelligently
- A Nicotine Patch a Day Keeps the Cognitive Impairment Away
- The Many Emerging Roles of Astrocytes
- Diabetes Impairs Cognition
- Media Violence Leads to Real Violence
- Intelligence – Are You Holding Back Your Brain?
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