by Christina Caron, NY Times, Mar 22, 2022 | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog
Five ways to soothe a mind fixated on anxiety, stress, and streams of information. Coronavirus cases are receding across the United States, and face masks are coming off. Little green shoots are finally poking through the earth, signaling the arrival of warmer...
by Tara Pope-Parker, NY Science Times, Feb, 2022 | Feb 22, 2022 | Blog
Increasingly, researchers are finding stronger links between diet and brain health. It’s time to start feeding your brain. For years research on healthy eating has focused primarily on physical health and the link between diet, weight, and chronic disease. But the...
by New York Science Times, Tuesday, Nov 23 2021, page D-5, on treating Chronic Pain | Dec 7, 2021 | Blog
As the Opioid Crisis shook the public’s view of painkillers and pharmaceutical companies came under fire for their marketing practices, many patients looked for alternatives. One of the leading contenders; talk therapy. Psychologists, therapists, and social workers...
by Laura Sanders | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog
Ripples of nerve cell activity that lock in memories may have an unexpected job outside of the brain: dropping blood sugar levels in the body. Soon after a burst of ripples in a rat’s hippocampus, a brain structure that plays a key role in memory, sugar levels...
by WDDTY: Cell Stem Cell, 2021;doi: 10.1016/ j.stem.2021.05.001 | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
Memory loss in Alzheimer’s patients could be reversed following the discovery of a molecule that can rejuvenate the brain. People with Alzheimer’s have low stores of the molecule, microRNA-132, especially in the brain’s hippocampus region, which is causing memory...