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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We found this post that mentions Dr. Paul Nussbaum’s approach to brain health. Dr. Nussbaum does a great job of communicating the importance of a fit brain to the public

Dr. Nussbaum says that a healthy lifestyle characterized by socialization, physical activity, mental activity, spirituality, and nutrition leads to improved brain health. Individuals should reduce their caloric intake to 80% of what they intend to consume at each meal because overeating and obesity do not contribute to brain health.

You can read more here

Here is an article by Dr. Rallie McAllister on the positives of coffee.

“Coffee may have even greater benefits on the human brain, protecting it from degenerative disorders that lead to dementia. Recent studies suggest that habitual coffee drinkers have a lower risk for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease than individuals who abstain”

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The Alliance for Aging Research is encouraging Americans to boost their brain health.

“There is a lot we can do to keep our brains healthy and potentially prevent or lessen the cognitive decline that often comes with aging,” Daniel Perry, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance for Aging Research”

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Here is some more progress in the ability to detect Alzheimer’s earlier on.

“We urgently need techniques to see brain changes in the earliest stages of cognitive decline so that we can identify people at risk…”

The full article can be read here

Here is another report that links exercise and the brain.

“Physical activity may be beneficial to cognition during early and middle periods of the human lifespan and may continue to protect against age-related loss of cognitive function during older adulthood”.

You can see this story in full here 

Here is an interesting post over at iHealthBulletin.

Everybody knows that exercise is good for your heart, but in recent years we’ve gathered compelling evidence that exercise is also good for your brain,” says Fred Gage, PhD, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. “We now know that exercise helps generate new brain cells, even in the aging brain.”

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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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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

Here is an interesting article from AOL Health on super foods and a healthier life. The article includes one of the best super foods, blueberries:

These amazing berries are on anyone’s list of super foods. Recent research shows that they’re brain food — feeding blueberries to rats actually slows their age-related mental decline

For more information, visit AOL Health