MIAMI: Armed with $1.5 million in grant money from the NIH, a pair of investigators at Harvard Med and Boston University are bootstrapping a small biotech upstart with an eye to pursuing candidate selection in animal studies for a new approach to treating Alzheimer’s disease. Read More »

DALLAS: Deterioration in a person’s ability to smell can sometimes be an early sign of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s. Now, researchers at the Monell Center have established a collaboration with the Brain Health Registry (BHR) to gain better insight into how changes Read More »

NEW YORK: The study of older adults found that those with packed schedules tended to do better on tests of memory, information processing and reasoning.

Researchers said the findings don’t prove that “busyness” makes us smarter. For one, sharper people may seek out more mental stimulation. Read More »

DALLAS: Hectic or busy lives might lead to having a brain that ages better, according to the findings of a recent study called the Dallas Lifespan Brain Study. While past studies have looked at the relationship between engaging the brain in challenging intellectual activities and Read More »