So you understand that maintaining a social network of friends is important to your cognitive health. Do you feel like your social life could use a boost? Try these tips for enhancing your social interactions and relationships:
Call a friend or relative you haven’t talked to in a while
Schedule a regular lunch or dinner date with [...]
You may find this primer about brain development and functioning, created by the Society of Neuroscience quite interesting. They are a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system and whose mission it to research and educate. The primer is called Brain Facts. It’s written with a non-medical audience in [...]
A new controlled study using HAPPYneuron exercises has been launched at the prestigious University of Zurich, Institute of Psychology, Switzerland under the supervision of Dr. Anne Echen. The goal of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of episodic memory training consisting of personalized adaptive computer exercises. 40 subjects between the ages of 60 [...]
According to a new, long-term research study by neurological experts at the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center, both African-American and white older patients with Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment have an increased risk of mortality. Research results were published in the June 2009 issue of Archives of Neurology.
Alzheimer’s disease has emerged [...]
In recent years scientists have become intensely interested in what could be called a super memory club. At a retirement community in Southern California fewer than one in 200 persons out of 20,000 are living past 90 without a trace of dementia. It is a group that, for the first time, is large enough to [...]
Now, according to a study published on April 3 in the journal Science, researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health found more evidence that sleep resets the brain to allow more growth and learning the next day. Read about their fascinating research here. So get a good night’s sleep – your [...]
Last week I spoke with Adrian Berg of the Longevity Club Radio Show about the HAPPYneuron cross training program, the history of brain science, the impact of technology on the effectiveness of the program and the resulting cognitive health benefits for life. Listen on (about 5 minutes into the show).
Interestingly, the Mayo Clinic researchers reported that men are 1.5 times more likely than women to have memory problems. You may wonder then, how it can also be true that more women develop and die from Alzheimer’s Disease?
The kind of memory loss in the study is called mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Scientists theorize that in [...]
For many years, I and, the HAPPYneuron scientific team have been working with prestigious medical institutions and universities to collaborate on the effective use of interactive cognitive training activities for the deferral of brain decline in addition to the remediation of specific conditions such as Mild Cognitive Impairment, Traumatic Brain Injury, Depression and Schizophrenia. Many [...]
They say that human beings are social animals. It seems intuitive (even for introverts!) that social contact has benefits. Obviously we need other people to fulfill basic needs such making sure that our genes outlive us. Maybe less obviously, we seem to need other people to maintain adequate levels of mental well-being and motivation. Even [...]