by King’s College London Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a study examining the link between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and brain dysfunction, scientists at the Roger Williams Institute of Hepatology, affiliated to King’s College London and the University of Lausanne, found an accumulation of fat in the liver causes a decrease in oxygen to...
by Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Investigators led by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) that previously discovered tiny channels in the skull have now found that cerebrospinal fluid (also known as “brain water”) can exit the brain into the skull’s bone marrow through these channels. The discovery, which is published in Nature...
by Norwegian Institute of Public Health This is what people do for their brain health. Based on 27 500 answers from the Global Brain Health Survey. Credit: Lifebrain The prospect of experiencing symptoms of cognitive or mental decline is a key motivation to undertake lifestyle changes for better brain health, according to the second public...
by University of Helsinki Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With aging populations and growing life expectancy, the number of people suffering from dementia is increasing. For more effective dementia prevention, it is important to better understand risk and protective factors affecting late-life cognition. It is known that midlife cardiovascular risk factors are associated with weaker late-life...
by Laura Williamson, American Heart Association Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Anyone who has put on a few too many pounds knows they can slow you down. Over time, if those pounds grow into obesity, they may do serious harm, putting you at risk for a wide range of illnesses. But too much weight on the body also...
Millions of people around the world seek mental clarity through meditation, most of them following or inspired by the centuries-old practices of Buddhism. Anecdotally, those who meditate say it helps to calm their minds, recenter their thoughts, and cut through the “noise” to show what really matters. Scientifically, though, showing the effects of meditation on...
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER How old is your brain compared to your chronological age? A new measure of brain health developed by researchers at Rush University Medical Center may offer a novel approach to identifying individuals at risk of memory and thinking problems, according to research results published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association on June 1. ...
by University College London Credit: CC0 Public Domain For the study, published in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, researchers analysed data from the UK Biobank of 500,000 people aged 58 years on average, and found that people with higher than normal blood sugar levels were 42% more likely to experience cognitive decline over an average of four years,...
by American Heart Association Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Medical science has come a long way since the days of “bikini medicine,” when the only time doctors managed a woman’s health differently than a man’s was when treating the parts of her body found under a bikini. Over the past few decades, researchers have uncovered countless ways in which women’s...
By Ryan Prior, CNN Being lonely is linked to worse health outcomes, but isolation can also stimulate areas of the brain that control creativity, a new study has indicated. (CNN)As many people face the prospect of being alone for the holidays, new science is showing how loneliness might actually help build structures in the brain tied...
