Something that I can definitely attest to is the phenomenon that once you endure the learning of one foreign language, the acquisition of other foreign languages becomes easier. I always felt the case was that one ‘learnt how to learn a language’. Now it’s been proven in a scientific study.
I strongly recommend language learning as [...]

I came across this article the other day about the possibility that memories might be stored on our DNA itself. I and most others were under the impression that memory storage probably had something to do with the physical interconnections between neurons, or that there was something else weird going on like bizarre quantum-level effects. [...]

Alzheimer’s researchers at the UCLA Department of Neurology, in collaboration with Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, have discovered a possible mechanism for how red wine might help reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Polyphenols are a group of chemical substances found in plants, characterized by the presence of more than one phenol [...]

A new study to be published in the Journal of Applied Physiology has confirmed that exercise can restore the decline in neural stem cells normally associated with aging.
The brain constantly produces new cells that differentiate into a wide variety of mature neurons in a process called neurogenesis. Particularly in the hippocampus, a decline in the [...]

Researchers at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have come up with a preliminary answer as to why some people remain mentally nimble into extreme old age.
By analyzing the brains of people who had died when they were older than 80, yet who scored well on tests of brain function, the researchers discovered that these [...]

Previously reported-on future experimental muscle drug MK-677 has been found to not help with Alzheimer’s progression despite stimulating production of IGF-I.
A study from the American Academy of Neurology reports that despite evidence that increased IGF-I helps reduce beta-amyloid plaques in the minds of mice, the IGF-I stimulating drug MK-677 did not help humans given the [...]

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have worked out why it’s so much easier to re-learn something that has been learnt before, even if it feels like you’ve totally forgotten it.
I find this very comforting, because there are so many things I’ve spent countless hours learning, but have subsequently forgotten. I always thought, [...]

One of the things many people fear about the advancement of genetic research is that one day we might be discriminated against on the grounds of our inherited predispositions. For example, if you test positive for a genetic variation that increases the likeliness of your having a stroke early in life, you might have to [...]