Beauty

Why do psychiatric conditions multiply the risk of cognitive decline? Age is the single biggest risk factor for dementia, with the odds doubling about every five years after age…
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Cynthia Thurlow likes to remind her patients that digestion begins in the brain, in the way people think about their food before they have even taken a bite. Conversely, 95 percent…
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The old concept of Fight or Flight was helpful in helping to explain the stress response. It’s just not good enough anymore. Our nervous system is much more complex than that.Hans…
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Prepared by Sigfried and Susan Othmer, ca 1990-1995 How many of us lie awake at night, with ruminating thoughts, unable to fall asleep? Or we finally…
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Increasingly, researchers are finding stronger links between diet and brain health. It’s time to start feeding your brain. For years research on healthy eating has focused…
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John Lennon is quoted as saying: ‘Life is what happens when you are making other plans.’ Indeed, Life continues to throw curve-balls at us: from the Covid, tragedy, familial and…
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As the Opioid Crisis shook the public’s view of painkillers and pharmaceutical companies came under fire for their marketing practices, many patients looked for alternatives. One…
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Health impact studies of air pollution, including wildfire smoke, have mostly focused on the lungs. But toxicologist Matthew Campen of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque…
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Some say a cure for ailments like anxiety is flowing from the brain. But much is unknown. By Christina Caron In recent years, the vagus nerve has become an object of fascination,…
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As kids grow up, unfamiliar voices get more interesting By Laura Sanders Young kids’ brains are especially tuned to their mothers’ voices. Teenagers’ brains, in their typical…
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