A study published in medical journal Neurology, found that people who think that they are in poor health are more likely to develop dementia later in life. Among study participants with no cognitive problems, those who rated their health as poor were nearly twice as likely to develop dementia as those who rated their health [...]
Individual neurons (nerve cells) appear to hold on to memory for a fleeting moment, according to a recent study. This information is contrary to what researchers have previously found. Popular thinking is that memories are created by brain cells work together to form connections. "It's more like RAM [random access memory] on a computer than [...]
95-Year-Old Teacher has Revolutionary Take on Dyslexia Tustin, California (PRWEB) October 01, 2011 Against the Norm: 95-Year-Old Teacher has Revolutionary Take on Dyslexia Collin Corkum’s radical ideas about the most common reading disorder of our time may ruffle the feathers of some in the teaching establishment. But at age 95, Corkum, himself diagnosed as dyslexic [...]
Most biographies of Albert Einstein focus primarily on his work and philosophies, and do not provide much information about his close friendships, especially with Michelle Besso, an engineer, and Heinrich Zangger, a professor of forensic medicine at the University of Zurich. The influence these two men had Einstein's life, both personally and professionally, were profound [...]
Every bit of information we process through our senses – sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste, is taken in through our short-term memory and filtered through neurotransmitters to be stored or thrown out. Sounds simple? It may sound simple, but the brain and how it processes memory is a complex system, and it involves thousands [...]
Forty years ago, due to the fact that some people with Alzheimer’s disease had aluminum deposits in their brains, scientists began to explore a possible link between overexposure to metals and Alzheimer's disease. However, after many years of study, no conclusive evidence was able to link aluminum exposure to neurodegenerative diseases, which left researchers to [...]
