detect-Alzheimer's-pathology

Here are four stud­ies and arti­cles, pub­lished in Jan­u­ary, that report very inter­est­ing find­ings and offer inspir­ing ideas:

• An arti­cle on the role of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty in Rep. Gabrielle Gif­fords’ recovery.
• A new study that used a blood test able to detect beta amy­loid 42 (the pro­tein frag­ment that makes up Alzheimer’s plaque) and sug­gest­ed that the asso­ci­a­tion between amy­loid and cog­ni­tive decline could be mod­i­fied by cog­ni­tive reserve.
• An arti­cle on a new brain scan tech­nol­o­gy to detect Alzheimer’s pathol­o­gy in the brain.
• An arti­cle report­ing the answer of Don Tap­scott to the ques­tion “What sci­en­tif­ic con­cept would improve every­body’s cog­ni­tive toolk­it?” [Read more…] about Inter­est­ing Recent Stud­ies and Arti­cles on Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, Cog­ni­tive Reserve, and Brain Fitness