Recent Posts in the Adults & Seniors Category

• The Biggest Brain Breakthroughs of 2019

  Jan 9, 2020
  Our understanding of the brain increases with each passing year, thanks to advances in technology and medicine. We have new methods to study it, improve it and even fix it, but sometimes the big ...
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• Wayne Becomes a Proficient Reader at 72!

  Dec 10, 2019
  As an adult, Wayne learned that a childhood brain injury may have weakened his cognitive skills, leaving him to struggle with reading his entire life. At 72, he went to LearningRx for a cognitive ...
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• Gender gap closing for women with ADHD

  Dec 10, 2019
  A June 2019 article in ADDitude magazine reports that ADHD diagnoses for women in mid-life is on the rise, helping to close the gender gap by 31% for adults with ADHD. Although men still outnumber ...
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• Brain Injury Survivor Turns to Personal Brain Training

  Dec 9, 2019
  After a bike accident left Drew with a serious traumatic brain injury, a hospital stay, physical and occupational therapies helped addressed his physical injuries, but he needed help addressing his ...
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• The Biggest Brain Breakthroughs of 2019

  Dec 1, 2019
  Our understanding of the brain increases with each passing year, thanks to advances in technology and medicine. We have new methods to study it, improve it and even fix it, but sometimes the big ...
  Posted By Wendy Burt-Thomas
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• Blood thinner may help delay Alzheimer’s

  Nov 26, 2019
  Are you or someone you love taking an anticoagulant to prevent blood clots? A team of investigators from New York and Spain found than one particular blood thinner may help delay the development of ...
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• A dance break may boost brain function

  Nov 19, 2019
  Are you a good dancer? Never mind—it doesn’t matter! According to dance psychologist and TEDx speaker Peter Lovatt, Ph.D., taking a five-minute dance break is a quick, easy way to improve your brain ...
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• Monkeys show more cognitive flexibility than humans

  Nov 7, 2019
  A team of researchers from Georgia State University wanted to know if capuchin and rhesus monkeys could outperform humans on tests of cognitive flexibility. The set up a variety of tests and found ...
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• Salty food may increase risk for cognitive decline

  Nov 4, 2019
  Chips, popcorn, pork rinds, crackers, olives. If you love salty food, take note. New research indicates that consuming a lot of salt may promote cognitive decline. The study, which was published in ...
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• Staying Socially Active Appears to Offset Cognitive Decline

  Oct 2, 2019
  At the 2019 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in July, representatives from five research studies talked about lifestyle interventions that may counteract the genetic risk for the ...
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