Posts Tagged ‘cognitive-skills’
Study in China finds that retirement may accelerate cognitive decline, even for those with stable income
People who retire early suffer from accelerated cognitive decline and may even encounter early onset of dementia, according to a new economic study (Note: opens PDF) I conducted with my doctoral student Alan Adelman. To establish that finding, we examined the effects of a rural pension program China introduced in 2009 that provided people who…
Read MoreDARPA-funded nonsurgical neurotechnologies push the frontier of brain-machine interfaces
Rice University Charges Into the Future with Magnetics and Bioimplants (All About Circuits): Advances in self-generating drug delivery systems, brain-to-brain communication, and injury mitigation technologies are just some of the newest research coming down the pipeline from Rice University. Several research projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) N3 program might herald…
Read MoreFive brain teasers to celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2021
Brain Awareness Week 2021 just started. Let’s celebrate by challenging our minds with a few fun brain teasers and illusions :-) Here’s a selection of five stimulating brain teasers that readers enjoyed the most so far in 2021: Where’s the baby? And a couple other surprising illusions Please complete these proverbs to exercise your brain in familiar…
Read MoreIf you’re a fruit fly, tease your mind with this optical illusion. Humans welcome too.
Please move your gaze around the image, resting from time to time. Then, fix your gaze at a point, and see what happens. You will probably first see ‘snakes’ rotating, some clockwise, others anticlockwise, and then stop.
Read MoreGiven cognitive strengths and needs are diverse, what brain training may work best for each person and under which conditions?
Does ‘Brain Training’ Actually Work? (Scientific American): If there were an app on your phone that could improve your memory, would you try it? Who wouldn’t want a better memory? After all, our recollections are fragile and can be impaired by diseases, injuries, mental health conditions and, most acutely for all of us, aging.
Read MoreBrain scans show lower accumulation of tau and amyloid pathology among cognitive “super-agers”
Super-Agers Show Resistance to Tau and Amyloid Accumulation, Maintain High Cognitive Function (Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging press release): Super-agers, or individuals whose cognitive skills are above the norm even at an advanced age, have been found to have increased resistance to tau and amyloid proteins, according to research presented at the Society…
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