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 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...