SAN FRANCISCO: Getting a good night’s sleep boosts women’s brain power, while men benefit from shorter naps, research has suggested.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Munich analysed the sleep patterns of 160 adults to consider how sleep affects intellectual capacity.

The researchers monitored the Read More »

BOSTON: A new social enterprise, Creating Conversations, is launching an innovative activity kit at the University of Stirling to encourage creative activities among people living with dementia.

The toolkit, developed by Artlink Central, a charity that offers artist-led participatory programs to support people from disadvantaged Read More »

PHOENIX: A new classification system for biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease that includes measures of amyloid (A), tau (T), and neurodegeneration (N) has been proposed.

The system includes different ways of measuring all three biomarkers (positron emission tomography [PET] scans, cerebrospinal fluid sampling, MRI scans) and Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Recent studies on rats and mice — the first such on non-human animals — could have an important influence on how we think about the nature of memory, a University of Kansas philosopher said.

Using a technique called optogenetics in non-human animals, neuroscientists and Read More »