by British Medical Journal Credit: CC0 Public Domain The evidence for the harmful effects of alcohol on brain health is compelling, but now experts have pin-pointed three key time periods in life when the effects of alcohol are likely to be at their greatest. Writing in The BMJ today, researchers in Australia and the UK say evidence suggests...
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Cocoa flavanols boost brain oxygenation, cognition in healthy adults – diet & nutrition
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, NEWS BUREAU IMAGE: UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM LECTURER IN NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES CATARINA RENDEIRO FOUND THAT COCOA FLAVANOLS IMPROVE BRAIN OXYGENATION AND COGNITION IN HEALTHY ADULTS. CREDIT: PHOTO COURTESY CATARINA RENDEIRO CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The brains of healthy adults recovered faster from a mild vascular challenge and performed better on complex tests...
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Consumption of a blueberry enriched diet by women for six weeks alters determinants of human muscle progenitor cell function
A NEW STUDY INVESTIGATED HOW SERUM FROM SUBJECTS CONSUMING A DIET ENRICHED WITH BLUEBERRIES WOULD AFFECT THE CELLS RESPONSIBLE FOR MUSCLE GROWTH AND REPAIR.view more CREDIT: U.S. HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY COUNCIL FOLSOM, Calif. – August 5, 2020 – A new research study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, investigated how serum from subjects consuming a diet...
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Beat type 2 diabetes in middle age – and you could fight off Alzheimer’s: Compelling new evidence shows high blood sugar in your 40s may trigger dementia
Study of people with Alzheimer’s found 81 per cent had diabetes or prediabetes Research found cheap diabetes drugs may be able to slow progress of disease The link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s was found by studying brain cells Prof Wharton said insulin resistance could be ‘targeted to improve brain health’ By JO MCFARLANE FOR THE...
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It’s not just Alzheimer’s disease: Research highlights form of dementia
by University of Kentucky The long-running study on aging and brain health at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Alzheimer’s Disease Center has once again resulted in important new findings—highlighting a complex and under-recognized form of dementia. The work was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): Neurology. “One...
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Can our thoughts alter our brains?
Brain-computer interfaces have a structural impact on brain substance after one hour of training MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES The interdisciplinary study examined the influence of two different types of BCI on the brains of test subjects with no prior experience of this technology. The first subgroup was given the task...
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Study: Rapamycin prevents age-related brain vascular deterioration
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO A just-released study by UT Health San Antonio and collaborating institutions shows age-related decreases in blood flow to the brain and memory loss can be modified with the drug rapamycin. This finding, if furthered, holds implications for aging in general and perhaps offers an avenue to...
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Biomarker for schizophrenia can be detected in human hair
RIKEN Working with model mice, post-mortem human brains, and people with schizophrenia, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered that a subtype of schizophrenia is related to abnormally high levels hydrogen sulfide in the brain. Experiments showed that this abnormality likely results from a DNA-modifying reaction during development that lasts throughout life. In addition to...
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Groundbreaking study improves understanding of brain function
Posted Yesterday Dr. Corrado Calì, a research scientist specializing in brain imaging at KAUST, and Swiss scientists from the Blue Brain Project (BBP) have shown how lactate is necessary for memory formation and learning, which could lead to improved learning and memory function. The project falls under the umbrella of the ambitious European Human Brain...
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Brain immune cells may protect against OCD, anxiety
By Catharine Paddock, Ph.D. Fact checked by Isabel Godfrey Over the last decade, scientists have been discovering that microglia, a type of immune cell that resides in the brain, do more than respond to illness and infection. Now, new research in mice has linked the dysfunction of microglia of a particular genetic lineage to anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)....