_ Weight Loss Liver and Brain Communicate to Regulate Appetite By Jane Farrell article The liver stores excess glucose, which is later released to cover body energy requirements. Diabetic patients do not accumulate glucose … Read More→
_ Healthy Diet & Nutrition Calorie Counting and Your Brain By Jane Farrell article WeΓÇÖve all seen those little booklets that tell you how many calories are in different kinds of food. As it … Read More→
_ Weight Loss How Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners Affect Your Health By Jane Farrell article We know that sugar isnΓÇÖt an optimal ingredient in our food. But how undesirable is it, and are artificial sweeteners … Read More→
_ Undergoing Cancer Treatment Battling "Chemo Brain" By Jane Farrell article Scientists have identified a culprit in the condition known as ΓÇ£chemo brain,ΓÇ¥ a decrease in mental sharpness attributed to chemotherapy. … Read More→
_ Healthy Diet & Nutrition ΓÇ£SpiceΓÇ¥ Up Your Health By Jane Farrell article Did you know that one of the easiest things you can do to improve your health is to use a … Read More→
Negative Thoughts Are Bad for Your Health By blog I just discovered a new show on TNT called ΓÇ£PerceptionΓÇ¥. Have your seen it yet? Very interesting! Last night the […]
_ Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias Memory & AD: Understanding Brain Circuitry By Sondra Forsyth article A study published August 31st 2014 in the journal Nature Neuroscience by,Sylvain Williams PhD and colleagues at the Research Centre … Read More→
_ Healthy Diet & Nutrition ΓÇ£SpiceΓÇ¥ Up Your Health By Sondra Forsyth article By Diane Blum Did you know that one of the easiest things you can do to improve your health is to use a handful of spices each day? Simply adding the right spices increases nutrients in your diet, allows you to use less salt and sugar for taste, and also has important health side benefits. Here are a few of the healthiest: 1) Cinnamon
_ Stroke ThirdAge Health Close-Up: ΓÇ£I Felt Like I Was Buried AliveΓÇ¥ By Sondra Forsyth article As told to Sherry Amatenstein, LCSW On October 17, 2010 shortly after her 49th birthday Allison OΓÇÖReilly didnΓÇÖt feel like herself. The McLean, Virginia author of Out of Darkness explains, ΓÇ£My left arm hurt all day. I took Advil. That night the room started spinning, my ears were ringing, and I felt really sick.ΓÇ¥
Brain Health Elasticity of Brain Arteries & Aging Well By Sondra Forsyth article In an effort to identify how the elasticity of the arteries in the brain correlates with aging well, researchers at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used optical methods developed in their lab to map out the pulse pressure of the entire brainΓÇÖs cortex.
_ Using a Computer to Help Treat Mental Health By Jane Farrell article Experts are developing a genetic computer model that may eventually predict whether a patient going to suffer from a mental illness, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The researchers, from the University of Texas, Arlington; the University of Illinois; and the Beijing Genomics Institutes in Wuhan, China, published their findings in the journal Biomed Research International.
_ Aging Well Brain Health Right Brain Stays Youthful as We Age By Sondra Forsyth article At least one part of the human brain appears to be able to process information the same way in older age as it does in the prime of life, according to research conducted at the University of Adelaide in Australia and presented at the 12th International Cognitive Neuroscience Conference in Brisbane in July 2014.
_ Healthy Diet & Nutrition Fish Really Is Brain Food! By Sondra Forsyth article Eating baked or broiled fish once a week is good for the brain, regardless of how much omega-3 fatty acid it contains, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The findings, published online in 2014 the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, add to growing evidence that lifestyle factors contribute to brain health later in life.
_ Medical Care Update on Telehealth By Sondra Forsyth article By Miles E. Drake, Jr., MD ΓÇ£TelehealthΓÇ¥ or ΓÇ£telemedicineΓÇ¥ have been used more or less interchangeably over the past 50 years to describe the provision of health care services and exchange of health information by electronic means. The initial concept of telephonic and later computer-based medical interaction and education was defined by the Institute of Medicine as ΓÇ£the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates participantsΓÇ¥.
_ Brain Health Sleep Health A Good NightΓÇÖs Sleep Boosts Brain Power as We Age By Sondra Forsyth article A University of Oregon-led study published in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that middle-aged or older people who get six to nine hours of sleep a night think better than those sleeping fewer or more hours. The study reaffirms numerous small-scale studies in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, but it does so using data compiled across six middle-income nations and involving more than 30,000 subjects for a long-term project that began in 2007.
_ Menopause Menopause Brain: What You Need to Know Beat the Odds By Sondra Forsyth article By Soriyya Bawa As if hot flashes and irritability werenΓÇÖt enough to handle, women going through menopause also worry about the risk of memory loss. Some of the common cognitive concerns relating to memory loss that are reported by women going through menopause include trouble with routine mental tasks and remembering what was once easily retrievable information. A lot of research has delved into evaluating the link between menopause and memory loss, and weΓÇÖre now beginning to understand even more.
_ Brain Health Seeing the Inner Workings of the Brain By Sondra Forsyth article A team of scientists at Stanford University has improved a technique called CLARITY that they developed in 2013 to look into brains from deceased donors, according to a paper published June 19th 2014 in Nature Protocols. A release from the university explains that without this tool, the fatty outer covering of the brainΓÇÖs nerve cells blocks microscopes from taking images of the intricate connections between deep brain cells. CLARITY eliminates the fatty covering while keeping the brain intact with all its intricate inner wiring.
_ Transplanted Neurons Last Many Years in PD Brains By Sondra Forsyth article Neurons transplanted into Parkinson's-affected brains appear healthy after 14 years, according to research done at Harvard University and McLean Hospital and published June 5th 2014 in the journal Cell Reports.