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Are you sitting down as you’re reading this? If not, you may want to – chances are, if you’re browsing this on your iPhone while walking to the fridge, you’ll forget what you were reading about by the time you get back (and you may even forget what brought you to the kitchen in the […]
March 31, 2011
Fortunately, at least when it comes to dementia and certain brain injuries, the answer is no. That’s thanks to something referred to as one’s “cognitive reserve.” When comparing the two images, you might assume that the owner of the brain on the left has severely reduced mental capacity – but you’d be wrong. That decimated […]
February 5, 2011
The past few days were terribly busy & have kept me from posting. Here are some of this week’s most interesting findings: Aerobic exercise boosts hippocampal volume: The hippocampus is a small region of brain that is critical to the storage & retrieval of long-term memory and spatial reasoning – it’s also the first to […]
January 25, 2011
Dr. Seuss wasn’t a physician, but his stories may be just what the doctor ordered. A study published yesterday in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics concluded that shorter sleep and/or irregular sleep patterns pose a health risk to children. “Conclusions: Obese children were less likely to experience “catch-up” sleep on weekends, […]
Abnormal Facies 
January 15, 2012
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