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It’s long been believed that advancing age leads to broad declines in our mental abilities. Now new research from Georgetown University Medical Center offers surprisingly good news by countering this view. The findings, published August 19, 2021, in Nature Human Behaviour, show that two key brain functions, which allow us to attend to new information …
Daily low doses of cannabinoids may prevent or reverse cognitive changes that occur due to aging according to recent research. Cannabis is largely known for psychoactive effects which includes short term memory loss, problems with attention, concentration, resulting in the stereotypical really giggly person who may appear to be somewhat dazed and confused. Recent research …
A new non-invasive technique of investigating brain function has been devised by physicists showing great promise for diagnoses of neurodegenerative and aging related diseases in a collaborative study spanning from UK, Canada, and Poland. Â Â This newly developed non-invasive method could potentially be used for any diagnosis based on metabolic and cardiovascular related diseases …
Walking at one’s own pace for 40 minutes three times a week may combat declines in brain function associated with aging. The default mode network (DMN) is a brain circuit which dominates brain activity when a person is least engaged with the outside world (such as being a passive observer). Previous studies have found that …
Boston University (US) researchers reveal that the brain ages faster among people whose hearts pump blood less efficiently. In that cardiac dysfunction is associated with neuroanatomic and neuropsychological changes in aging adults with prevalent cardiovascular disease, Boston University School of Medicine (Massachusetts, USA) researchers explored the role of cardiac function, as measured by cardiac index, …