The right kind of cocoa might be great for your brain.
“This raises the prospect of using flavanols in the treatment of dementia, marked by decreased blood flow in the brain, and in maintaining overall cardiovascular health”.
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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”
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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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Drugs to enhance cognition are reported on in the BBC report by the UK organization Foresight. This report makes futuristic predictions in the brain health area about brain enhancers. Drugs that can have a positive influence on the brain, according to the article, might get abused by healthy people, including children, might one day take [...]