I’ve also said that as we learn more and more, we may lose earlier memories or change those memories to fit in with the newer information that is arriving!I’ve been known to say that as we age, of course we may alter or forget stuff – because our brains have years and years of memories…
Do we rely too much on drugs and not on prevention?According to some recent researchers: Between 2002 and 2012, they found 99.6% of trials of drugs aimed at preventing, curing or improving the symptoms of Alzheimer’s had failed or been discontinued. This compares with a failure rate of 81% for cancer drugs. The failure rate…
We all know we need sleep. And now we know more as to WHY we need sleep…. Because our brains are cleaned during sleep! Recent research has shown that: Cells in the brain, probably the glial cells which keep nerve cells alive, shrink during sleep. This increases the size of the interstitial space, the gaps…
Recently there have been new studies about Einstein’s brain – which was removed and preserved. Modern technology is being used to look at it, and like the research we read on brains and memory as we age, it seems that thickness, and connections make a difference in our brains. Einstein had more connections between the two halves…
A study on what are called “superagers” shows that not all older people lose memory as they age. This study looked at those over 80…. “Then we found something even more surprising, which was even harder to believe,” she says. “In an area called the anterior cingulate of the brain, it was actually…