Is it possible that a child born to an older father will have a lower IQ than a child born to an older mother? According to an Australian study, that may just be the case. "In general, you would predict that the offspring of older parents would do better, because the parents tend to have [...]
In the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) ever conducted on Alzheimer’s, researchers from around the world studied and shared information from the DNA samples of more than 56,000 participants. They analyzed the data to detect gene variations that could produce subtle effects on the developing, or risk for developing, Alzheimer’s. Results of the study were [...]
Have you ever known someone who loved to tell stories, and each time they tell the same story it gets grander? Take for example the movie, Big Fish, with Albert Finney and Ewan McGregor, where a very personable man told all sorts of tall tales, and although those around him enjoyed the stories they didn’t [...]
We judge things to be true based on how often we hear them. We like familiarity, and repeating a lie often enough makes it familiar to us - the repetition making it fall right in with all of the things our memory tells us are true about the world. Politicians and advertisers are aware of [...]
A study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology of more than 33,000 Swedish women over the course of 10 years, found that those who ate the most chocolate had the lowest chance of stroke. WOMEN who eat a bar of chocolate a week could reduce their risk of stroke by 20%. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
