Memory

Frontline: Brain nerve cell repair; cancer stem cells; T-cell therapy

Mar 21, 2024 · Rochelle Nataloni · Cancer

Brain Nerve Cell Repair Offers Hope for Alzheimer’s Disease Nerve cells in the brain require an enormous amount of energy to survive and maintain their connections with other nerve cells. In Alzheimer’s disease, the ability to make energy is damaged. As a result, the connections between nerve cells—called synapses—malfunction, causing … Read More

Frequently Forgetful? Medications Might Be the Cause

Mar 21, 2024 · Rochelle Nataloni · Cancer

Paying a bill late or forgetting to call your sister on her birthday are not significant lapses in memory if they occur over several months. But when glitches like this happen more frequently, it suggests a pattern of forgetfulness, and that can be concerning—especially for older people who invariably wonder … Read More

Exercise Improves Motor Learning and Remembering What You Learned

Mar 21, 2024 · UHN Staff · Cancer

Numerous studies have found that being physically active right before learning new information can help you better remember that information. And in a recent study, published in the Journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, researchers found that exercising also improves motor memory. The study suggests that before your learn a … Read More

How New and Old Hobbies Can Boost Your Mood, Memory, and Thinking Skills In This Issue

Mar 21, 2024 · UHN Staff · Cancer

Whether you play tennis, the piano, or bridge, just know that all that playing is also helping your brain to keep working at its best. Hobbies are too often dismissed as trivial pursuits, meant to provide a little enjoyment in our downtime and not much more. But hobbies, especially those … Read More

Understanding Senior Moments

Mar 21, 2024 · UHN Staff · Cancer

Forgetting where you left your car keys, struggling to recall someone’s name, or walking into a room and forgetting why you went there in the first place are common examples of “senior moments.” In most cases, these momentary memory slips are harmless. “The occasionally forgetting a word or a name, … Read More

Hearing Aids Extend Longevity

Mar 21, 2024 · UHN Staff · Cancer

A recent study featured in The Lancet Healthy Longevity suggests that wearing hearing aids can be crucial for those who need them but aren’t using them. Lead researcher Janet Choi, MD, MPH, an otolaryngologist at Keck Medicine, reveals that adults with hearing loss who consistently wear hearing aids lower their … Read More

Diabetes: The Door to Alzheimer’s Disease

Mar 21, 2024 · UHN Staff · Cancer

For people with diabetes, managing blood sugar can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, one has to be on the watch for other related diseases like high blood pressure, abnormal lipid levels, heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease, and obesity. Recently, a link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has been established and … Read More

Research Round Up April 2024

Mar 21, 2024 · UHN Staff · Cancer

• Plant-Based Diet May Lower Diabetes Risk. Eating a healthy plant-based diet may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by as much as 24 percent, according to researchers. The study, which included more than 113,000 participants over 12 years, found that, because a healthy plant-based diet can improve liver … Read More

MIND Diet Puts Focus on Brain Health

Feb 27, 2024 · Rochelle Nataloni · Cancer

Two separate diet plans— each associated with cognitive benefits on their own—have an even greater impact when combined. The MIND diet, which stands for Mediterranean- DASH Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay, is a hybrid of the Mediterranean and DASH diets, and is specifically designed to promote brain health. The MIND … Read More

MIND Diet Offers Food For Thought

Feb 27, 2024 · Orli R. Etingin, M.D. · Cancer

We’ve known for quite some time that avoiding sweets and processed foods is associated with a variety of worthwhile physical benefits, such as lower cholesterol and healthy weight. But science is showing that a diet that encourages antioxidant-rich foods, and discourages foods deemed ‘unhealthy,’ is associated with important mental benefits. … Read More