The Surprising Brain Exercise That Reverses Aging

A McGill University clinical trial found that digital brain training can restore key brain functions that fade with age.
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Can Hypothermia Really Bring You Back from the Dead?

Could Jon Snow have survived Game of Thrones not with magic, but with modern medical science? In this video, a maester of the Citadel (of science, not Westeros) examines the real-life phenomenon of ...

High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice

A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a ...
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Interrupting prolonged sitting with squats may improve brain function

A new study has found that interrupting prolonged sitting with a minute of half-squats every 20 minutes improved blood flow to the brain and, with it, cognitive functioning and concentration. This ...
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Are mitochondria the key to a healthy brain?

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...

New research finds dietary intervention of peanuts improves brain vascular function and memory

A study from the Institute of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM) at Maastricht University Medical ...
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Opioid use disorder is associated with changes in brain structure, function

Brain volume and function are altered in individuals with opioid use disorder, a new Yale study finds. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI), researchers observed the ...