Category Archives: Brain anatomy and imaging

Sleep Linked To Brain Cell Creation

February 15, 2007 – 5:55 pm

Here is a recent study out of Princeton University that tries to link sleep and brain cells. “Losing sleep may cause the brain to stop producing new brain cells, a study conducted by New Jersey’s Princeton University has found” To read more click here

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Loneliness Could Boost Alzheimer’s Risk

February 6, 2007 – 2:34 pm

Researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have assessed loneliness and dementia.  “In human beings, loneliness has been associated with impaired social skills. Thus, neural systems underlying social behavior might be less elaborated in lonely persons and, as a result, be less able to compensate for other neural systems compromised by age-related neuropathy,” [...]

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