Study with 330 centenarians finds that cognitive decline is not inevitable

By SharpBrains | April 13, 2021

Age-Relat­ed Cog­ni­tive Decline May Not Be Inevitable (Web­MD): It is often assumed that a decrease in mem­o­ry and brain func­tion are inevitable parts of aging, but a new study of cen­te­nar­i­ans sug­gests oth­er­wise. Inves­ti­ga­tors found that despite the pres­ence of neu­ro­log­i­cal issues gen­er­al­ly asso­ci­at­ed with Alzheimer’s dis­ease (AD), many cen­te­nar­i­ans main­tained high lev­els of cognitive…

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Beyond helmets: concussions require proactive, individualized monitoring and rehab

By SharpBrains | March 21, 2013

New Con­cus­sion Guide­lines Stress Indi­vid­ual Treat­ment (The New York Times): “The Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Neu­rol­o­gy said Mon­day that it had revised its guide­lines for han­dling con­cus­sions to empha­size treat­ing ath­letes case by case rather than accord­ing to a pre­de­ter­mined scale…In not­ing that more than a mil­lion Amer­i­can athletes 

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