Here is an interesting article on a new development in the fight against Alzheimer’s.

Scientists appear to have found a fingerprint of Alzheimer’s disease lurking in patients’ spinal fluid, a step toward a long-awaited test for the memory-robbing disease that today can be diagnosed definitively only at autopsy.

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Here is a post on some funding from MetLife.

This will support intergenerational programs and underwrite exhibitions to promote understanding of aging, brain health and healthy lifestyles

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Associated Press writer looks at brain work-outs on the web. Special attention is made to our www.happyneuron.com site and the article acknowledges the richness of our site compared to other online brain work-outs. It also states that mental calisthenics are good for you.

In other words, rigorous mental activity appears to be good for brain health, and, as a result, doctors are starting to reccomend mental calisthenics. But as with heart-disease or cancer prevention methods, nothing is foolproof.

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A very interesting post from the Eide Neurolearning blog.

“This study shows that revising is more effective if you mix new facts in with the old. You actually learn better, even though your brain is also tied up with new information.”

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Here is an interesting post over at Brain Ready on how the large consumer food group Nestlé is looking into brain health.

Nestle is entering into a five-year research effort with an esteemed research branch of the Swiss government, the EPFL Brain Mind Institute,  to study, “the role nutrition plays in children’s brain development to identifying ways of slowing down brain decline in older age and preventing diseases such as Alzheimer’s”.

More can be read here

The BBC has an interesting article on a recent development in the area of Alzheimer’s.

A new test may help researchers understand why a toxin builds up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. This test that could help improve diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s.  

More can be read at BBC

 The New York Times reports on a new study:

A substance found in fish oil may be associated with a significantly reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s and other dementias, researchers reported yesterday.

More can be read at the New York Times article

A very interesting post from the Eide Neurolearning blog. They pose the question “Is blogging good for you?”

Why ask this question? The primary reason can be found in one of the central tenets of modern neuroscience: “The neurons that fire together, wire together.” What this basically means is that our mental activities actually cause changes in the structures of our brains—not only what we think, but how we think as well. Given such activity-directed change, it always makes sense to ask whenever large numbers of people start using their brains in new and different ways, what effects these new activities are likely to have on brain structure and function.

The Eides (physician-parents with a national referral practice for children with learning difficulties) stipulate that blogging is likely good for you for a number of reasons.

1. Blogs can promote critical and analytical thinking.
2. Blogging can be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking.
3. Blogs promote analogical thinking.
4. Blogging is a powerful medium for increasing access and exposure to quality information.
5. Blogging combines the best of solitary reflection and social interaction.

Some very interesting points with good background and justification. Well worth a read!