http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Aging may seem unavoidable, but that's not necessarily so when it comes to the brain. So say researchers in the April 27th issue of the Cell Press journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences explaining that it is what you do in old age that matters more when it comes to maintaining a youthful brain not what you did earlier in life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-brain-secrets-aging-success.html Neuroscience Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:36:00 EST news254748953 New research explains how speaking more than one language may translate to better mental health. A paper published by Cell Press in the March 29th issue of the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences examines how being bilingual can offer protection from the symptoms of dementia, and also suggests that the increasing diversity in our world populations may have an unexpected positive impact on the resiliency of the adult brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-bilingual-wards-symptoms-dementia.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:00:04 EST news252239962