Too Much TV And Chill Could Reduce Brain Power Over Time (NPR):
“Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco checked in with 3,247 people for 25 years, starting when they were young adults…People who got little exercise or watched at least three hours of TV a day did worse [Read more…] about Study points to growing cognitive gap between high-volume TV watchers and infrequent watchers
Very interesting new data reinforcing two main themes we have been analyzing for a while:
1) We better start paying serious attention (and R&D dollars) to lifestyle-based and non-invasive cognitive and emotional health interventions, which are mostly ignored in favor of invasive, drug-based options
2) Interventions will need to be personalized. The study below analyzes data at the country level, but the same logic applies to the individual level
Many fear Alzheimer’s, want to be tested: survey (Reuters):
- “The telephone survey of 2,678 adults aged 18 and older in the United States, France, Germany, Spain and Poland was conducted by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and [Read more…] about Alzheimer’s Disease: New Survey and Research Study on Awareness, Testing and Prevention
