This Simple Ankle Test Reveals Your Risk for Stroke and Dementia
A new study from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland confirms what we’ve long known: the human body is connected in strange and unexpected ways. Specifically, researchers found that one of the best ways to...
MIT Breakthrough Shines Light on New Alzheimer’s Treatment
For those of us getting up in years, there are few things scarier than the A-word: Alzheimer’s. The disease affects one in nine Americans over the age of 65.1 If you’ve been...
Dagnabbit! How Complaining Rewires Your Brain
Even the most stoic among us are guilty of it. It’s okay. It might have rained for a week, or your boss chewed you out for something that wasn’t your fault, or you slept through...
Men May Be Able to Avoid Dementia by Marrying Intelligent Women
Most of us think of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease as problems limited to the elderly. That’s not entirely true, but it is mostly. After all, the majority of Alzheimer’s sufferers are over the age of...
Memories Lost to Alzheimer’s Can Be Recovered, MIT Study Suggests
Memory is a tricky thing. There are experiences that we store in our minds and can access later. Some memories are referred to as “long-term,” meaning that they are...