Guess what. It may be time to throw out all our anatomy and physiology textbooks. You know, the ones we used in Med school, the ones I used to teach the next generation of health professionals at schools across this great nation. Because there’s been a new discovery- one that will affect how we think about the brain for a long time in the future.
Continue reading Now you see it!
Well, it turns out that it’s not just memories that are critical for our mental health (reported here). Because dealing with nostalgia also works for depressed or anxious folks. Amazingly, there is even a physiological response when we recall past events- our body temperature elevates. Drs. Jonata, Tomic, and Rakowski reported that that listening to music was a great inducer of nostalgic memories.
Since I’ve been 15. Yup, while working at Arlee Cleaners, I was intimidated to switch from milk to drinking coffee. Of course, that was in New York, where “regular coffee” came equipped with a pound of sugar and a quart of milk. (OK, just two teaspoons of sugar and 25 ml of milk, in an 8 oz cup, but you get the idea.)
Continue reading Jumping Java?
Continue reading New Hope On the Horizon for Alzheimer’s Sufferers
John Trojanowski, of the University of Pennsylvania lead a research study that has isolated attest that seems to be 100% accurate in predicting who will develop Alzheimer’s. The results will be presented in Archives of Neurology.
Continue reading Not quite a treatment- but we can now tell IF Alzheimer’s will develop