| | Staying safe at home with Alzheimer’s Has your spouse or elderly parent been diagnosed recently? Take these simple steps right now to keep them safer in your (or their) home. Learn more. |
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How meditation can calm your brain Your calendar is jam-packed and it feels like you never get to just relax. Could this breath-focused practice be right for you? Learn more. |
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Vitamins for brain health? For several years, medical professionals have been looking into how taking vitamins can affect health. Recent research, based on multiple studies that include a total of more than 5,000 older adults, shows that taking a daily multivitamin can slow cognitive decline by an average of two years. Learn more. |
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Cursive for cognition California passed a law that in 2024, elementary schools had to start teaching cursive writing again—a change since 2010, when cursive was no longer required. Other states also mandate cursive. Why? As one California neuroscientist reports, “more neuroscience research is supporting the idea that writing out letters in cursive, especially in comparison to typewriting, can activate specific neural networks that facilitate and optimize overall learning and language development.” Learn more. |
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Sadly, trauma improves memory Scientists already know that experiencing trauma creates very strong memories. A new study shows that when someone experiences a traumatic event, they not only remember that event better, they also remember following events better. This research matters because it may have indications for eyewitness testimonials, as well as treating PTSD and other disorders. Learn more. |
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A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs that Made Our Brains (2023) By Max Bennett AI has been able to best human performance in many categories—but not in all. And some of the ways in which AI still can’t perform like humans seem simple, like loading a dishwasher. Why is that? Author Max Bennett draws attention to five breakthroughs in the course of historical human intelligence that have led us to where we are—and argues that AI won’t truly be able to replicate human performance until it can master all of those, too. |
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