Local News Valley woman and son team up to promote brain health Nick Ciletti
A Valley mom is sharing the importance of building better brain health. Genein Letford is taking what she has learned from spending 15 years as a teacher to educate all of us about how to power up our brains for a changing world. She’s hoping to raise awareness for things like brain disease, inspire more […]
Trump Policies at Odds With ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Push
In his March address to Congress, President Trump honored a Texas boy diagnosed with brain cancer. Amid bipartisan applause, he vowed to drive down childhood cancer rates through his “Make America Healthy Again (MAHA)” initiative. A few days later, the administration quietly dropped a lawsuit to cut emissions from a Louisiana chemical plant linked to […]
Havana Syndrome Mystery Continues to Deepen
Despite persistent symptoms, no significant evidence of brain injury and no abnormalities in most clinical measures were found in U.S. government personnel who experienced anomalous health incidents (AHIs) known as Havana syndrome, NIH researchers said. After adjusting for multiple comparisons, no differences in MRI measures of brain structure or function emerged between individuals with AHIs […]
This 1 Hobby Is Great For An Aging Brain, According To A New Study
Flashpop via Getty Images Want to protect your brain as you age? Pick up an instrument. If you’re looking to bolster your cognitive abilities and keep your mind sharp throughout your lifetime, you may want to pick up a musical instrument. A recent study published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry found that playing […]
Mark Ruffalo Says He Learned Of Brain Tumor From A ‘Crazy’ Dream
LOADINGERROR LOADING Mark Ruffalo vividly remembers learning he had a brain tumor and keeping it from his wife. The “Poor Things” star had only been married to Sunrise Coigney for a year when he found out in June 2001 and revealed Monday on the “Smartless” podcast that he didn’t tell her for two weeks as […]
AI may aid in diagnosing adolescents with ADHD
Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze specialized brain MRI scans of adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), researchers found significant differences in nine brain white matter tracts in individuals with ADHD. Results of the study will be presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). ADHD is a […]
Hunger hormones impact decision-making brain area to drive behavior
A hunger hormone produced in the gut can directly impact a decision-making part of the brain in order to drive an animal’s behaviour, finds a new study by UCL (University College London) researchers. The study in mice, published in Neuron, is the first to show how hunger hormones can directly impact activity of the brain’s […]
Brain Health Took a Hit During the COVID Pandemic
Brain health deteriorated more rapidly for people 50 and older during the COVID-19 pandemic, data from the PROTECT study in England suggested. Across the entire cohort of 3,100 people, both executive function (effect size 0.15) and working memory (effect size 0.51) worsened during the first year of the pandemic, according to Anne Corbett, PhD, of […]
Opinion | ‘The Nose Is the Front Door of the Brain’: What We Heard This Week
“The nose is the front door of the brain.” — Ray Dorsey, MD, of the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, describing how inhaled toxicants may play a role in the development of Parkinson’s and other brain diseases. “He’s going to walk out with a golden parachute we all paid for.” — Westby […]
Researchers identify the link between memory and appetite in the human brain to explain obesity
Disrupted connections between memory and appetite regulating brain circuits are directly proportional to body mass index (BMI), notably in patients who suffer from disordered or overeating that can lead to obesity, such as binge eating disorder (BED), according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Published today in […]