Jobs with low physical stress and good working conditions linked to larger hippocampus and better memory

CSU study links phys­i­cal stress on the job with brain and mem­o­ry decline in old­er age (press release): A new study out of Col­orado State Uni­ver­si­ty has found that phys­i­cal stress in one’s job may be asso­ci­at­ed with faster brain aging and poor­er mem­o­ry. Aga Burzyn­s­ka, an assis­tant pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Human Development…

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On World Health Day 2020, let’s discuss the stress response and the General Adaptation Syndrome (2/3)

_______ [Editor’s note: Con­tin­ued from yes­ter­day’s Explor­ing the human brain and how it responds to stress (1/3)] Stress was put on the map, so to speak, by a Hun­gar­i­an — born Cana­di­an endocri­nol­o­gist named Hans Hugo Bruno Selye (ZEL — yeh) in 1950, when he pre­sent­ed his research on rats at the annu­al con­ven­tion of…

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BrainCheck raises $8 million to digitize cognitive/ neuropsychological assessments and better serve the aging population

_______________ This start­up just raised $8 mil­lion to help busy doc­tors assess the cog­ni­tive health of 50 mil­lion seniors (TechCrunch): “…star­tups increas­ing­ly rec­og­nize oppor­tu­ni­ties to cater to this aging pop­u­la­tion. Some are devel­op­ing prod­ucts to sell to indi­vid­u­als and their fam­i­ly mem­bers direct­ly; oth­ers are com­ing up with ways to empow­er those who work directly…

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