Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Why are some people immune to age-related cognitive decline?

Emily Rogalski, '07 PhD, is part of a team of scientists taking a glass half-full approach to studying cognitive aging. Instead of focusing on factors that can lead to dementia and neurodegenerative disease as people grow ...

Addiction

Heavy alcohol use changes adolescents' brains

Heavy alcohol use during adolescence alters the development of brain, according to a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital. Cortical thinning was observable in young people who ...

Neuroscience

Scientists find the brain's generosity center

Scientists from Oxford University and UCL have identified part of our brain that helps us learn to be good to other people. The discovery could help understanding of conditions like psychopathy where people's behaviour is ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Why being bilingual helps keep your brain fit

In a café in south London, two construction workers are engaged in cheerful banter, tossing words back and forth. Their cutlery dances during more emphatic gesticulations and they occasionally break off into loud guffaws. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

The brain changes after behavioral exposure are lasting

In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics the brain changes following behavioral exposure have been examined at an unusually long follow-up. Even the most effective psychological treatments, such as cognitive ...

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