Posts Tagged ‘brain-volume’
Study: Antidepressant vortioxetine combined with cognitive training may help delay cognitive decline
Can Pharmacological Augmentation of Cognitive Training Remediate Age-Related Cognitive Decline? (The American Journal of Psychiatry): A gradual decline of cognitive function and concurrent loss of brain volume is an expected process even in healthy aging. What if, however, this process could be delayed, reversed, or even prevented? This question has become increasingly relevant as the…
Read MoreThe Mediterranean Diet seen to substantially reduce brain shrinkage among older adults
—– Less shrinkage: This is your aging brain on the Mediterranean diet (Los Angeles Times): “The aging brain is a shrinking brain, and a shrinking brain is, generally speaking, a brain whose performance and reaction time are declining: That is a harsh reality of growing older. But new research shows that brain shrinkage is less pronounced in…
Read MoreStudy: Long-term meditation can help slow down aging-related brain volume decline
. Long-term meditation tied to less brain loss (Reuters): “People who reported meditating for an average of 20 years had higher brain volumes than the average person, researchers report in Frontiers in Psychology. Kurth and his colleagues write that they can’t say meditation caused its practitioners to lose less brain volume, however. Other habits of…
Read MoreWhy Managing Stress is Crucial for Brain Fitness
How stress and depression can shrink the brain (Yale News): “Major depression or chronic stress can cause the loss of brain volume, a condition that contributes to both emotional and cognitive impairment. Now a team of researchers led by Yale scientists has discovered one reason why this occurs — a single genetic switch that triggers loss…
Read MoreStudy: Cognitive Markers or Biomarkers to manage Cognitive Health across the Lifespan?
Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease More Accurate Through Cognitive Changes Than Biomarkers (Medical News): “Measuring people’s changes in cognitive abilities is a better predictor of Alzheimer’s disease than changes in biomarkers, researchers from the Benito Menni Complex Assistencial en Salut Mental, Barcelona, Spain, reported in Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA journal.” “The investigators used a range of…
Read MoreUpdate: Let’s move, slow down, innovate, think and play
You have heard that physical exercise is good for the brain. How much exercise are we talking about? Can the benefits be seen both for children and adults? In Fitter bodies = fitter brains. True at all ages? Dr. Pascale Michelon answers these questions for you, based on latest scientific studies. We need fun ways to…
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