Dementia Archive
It’s enough to leave you crying into your pint! Moderate drinking is not as harmless as it seems. In fact it impacts the structure of your brain in a very bad way indeed. Your Brain On Alcohol Killjoy researchers from the University of Oxford and University College
It’s a well accepted fact that certain animals, like dogs and rodents, have an excellent sense of smell. Humans, not so much. But according to one neuroscientist, our sense of smell is much much better than we think. We may all smell like dogs, or even rats…
We are what we eat, we’re told. But, what happens if what we eat is bad for us? Could the Western Diet be leading us on a dark and lonely path to Alzheimer’s Disease? According to new research, it is for a significant minority. Tracking The Western
Have you felt that you’ve already experienced something, even though you know you’re experiencing it for the first time? It’s unsettling and creepy, and around two-thirds of us have had déjà vu at some time. What is going on? Are we experiencing past lives, a glitch in
The rate of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia are estimated to double every 20 years. On average a person is diagnosed with dementia every 3.2 seconds. In the face of such sobering statistics a new study offers some hope; it suggests that physically active people
As we age we are doomed to reduced mental capacities. We forget things, our thought processes slow down, we edge closer and closer to an inevitable near-vegetative state. Aging means inevitable cognitive decline, right? Nope. While some slowing down of thought processing is common, it’s also to
