by Anna Borges, New York Times, March 19, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | Blog
Multitasking is a bad habit. Here are some tactics to help you regain your focus. Multitasking is just the way many of us live. How often do you text while stuck in traffic, lose track of a podcast while doing chores, or flutter between the news and your inbox?...
by Viviane Callier New Scientist - Daily News, 23 November 2017 | Feb 9, 2024 | Blog
A hormone released by bones seems to reverse age-related memory loss. The hormone can be boosted by exercise, suggesting that lifting weights might protect the brain from the ravages of old age. Eric Kandel of Columbia University in New York and colleagues were...
by AARP the magazine, April, May, 2023 | Feb 9, 2024 | Blog
When it comes to brain health, keeping your weight stable may.be the most important task of all. Obesity, particularly when there’s lots of visceral fat present, is a risk factor for faster brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease, says Howard Fillit, M.D., cofounder and...
by Ellen Barry, New York Times, December 5, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | Blog
Scans offer insights into why PTSD memories are vivid and intrusive. At the root of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a memory that cannot be controlled. It may intrude on everyday, activity, thrusting a person into the middle of a horrifying event, or...
by Alisha Haridasani Gupta, New York Times, Nov 28, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | Blog
The life phase may be an important risk factor in developing dementia. Across the United States, roughly six million adults 65 and over have Alzheimer’s disease. Almost two thirds of them are women a discrepancy that researchers have long attributed to genetics and...
by Meghan Rosen, Science News, February, 2023 | Nov 7, 2023 | Blog
Avoidance is linked to poor outcomes, but change is possible The worst procrastinators probably won’t be able to read this story. ‘It’ll remind them’ of what they’re trying to avoid, ‘psychologist’ Piers Steel says. Maybe...