“There is no magic pill that fixes a bad diet.” This rather direct advice comes from the lead investigator of a study on the balance of food intake containing Omega 6 & Omega 3 fatty acids, recently published in the PLOS ONE online scientific journal. In general, Omega 3 sources like fish, beans, and green… Read More »
Want to be able to see and monitor your brainwave activity on your smart phone? There’s an app for that – or there will be by the end of this year, based on demonstrations shown at the Neuro Gaming conference this month in San Francisco. By using consumer friendly EEG recording sensors, packaged in a… Read More »
Habitually drinking several sodas on a daily basis can increase the risk of depression, according to a long term study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The NIH project surveyed over 260,000 people in 1995 and 1996, taking information on daily beverage consumption, including soda (both diet & regular), fruit drinks, and coffee. The… Read More »
An interesting study published in the journal Neurology suggests that there might be an optimal time window for women to begin hormone therapy (HT) after menopause, at least for the purpose of lowering the chances of Alzheimer’s disease later in life. The study followed more than 1,700 women (all over age 65) for a decade,… Read More »
The Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco earlier this week pointed to the future of what health care can become in many aspects: online, personalized, and real time. There are a number of new online brain health tools that launched this year at the conference, with many more on the way soon. Some of these… Read More »
A pair of research studies have recently pointed out the risk for cognitive impairment with elevated blood glucose readings, including levels that are currently considered high-range normal. In the first study, published in Archives of Neurology, researchers assessed over 700 people with Type 2 diabetes over a period of 10 years, looking at cognitive health… Read More »