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Lumosity Controversy Remixed!: Puzzles, Reading, Game Workouts Might Make Brains Mighty After-All

Filed Under: Aging

Lumosity Controversy Remixed!: Puzzles, Reading, Game Workouts Might Make Brains Mighty After-All
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Surprisingly Traditional Activities Show Some Brain-Fitness Promise:

We’ve all heard it before. Do puzzles. Read more. Play games. Keep your mind active.

That search for ways to stay sharp as we age has led to everything from brain-training apps to a variety of supplements.

Is it all just Lumosity BS, or just something we tell ourselves to feel better about time spent doing crosswords?

Or, what if some of the most effective tools have been right in front of us all along?

Well, a team at Texas A&M decided to find out for sure.

And their research is uncovering some interesting evidence about the “Lumosity” angle after all…

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Blueberries & Memory: The King Of Superfoods Wins Another Battle. This Time: Dementia

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Blueberries & Memory: The King Of Superfoods Wins Another Battle. This Time: Dementia
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Blueberries For Memory. Favorite Superfood Winning Against Dementia:
Many times, we can all hear about some kind of new hack or “Old Wives’ Tale” that we’re not sure about.

Sometimes it’s a checkout-lane diet, insane celebrity rumor, or just a fad.

You hear that this new thing is supposed to deliver results, but over time the story could seem to run out of legs.

But what really helps reinforce something that’s hard to believe is ongoing evidence from !SCIENCE!

And one of the recommendations in the HT post on Dr. Neal Barnard’s superfoods for your brain just got another big research boost…

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Back To The Future!: Old Drug Provides New Benefits In Fight Against Alzheimer’s

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Mind/Brain, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Back To The Future!: Old Drug Provides New Benefits In Fight Against Alzheimer’s
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Retro Approach To New Info Pays Off:
In the field of research, The New rules the roost. What’s old is considered obsolete.

And nowhere is this more obvious than the search for cures to diseases.

Both The How & The Why seem so complex, the Solution must be something supercomputer-complex, & supercomputer-new, also.

Well, in a strange turn of events, an English team took the recent trend of Inflammation being implicated in many diseases, including Alzheimer’s,

And ran with it, back to a 2,000+ year-old fix that looks like the start of a new cure…

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Now We Know Why Vegetarians Sound So Dumb & Dizzy. It’s Because Creatine Boosts All Different Kinds Of Brain POWAH!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Now We Know Why Vegetarians Sound So Dumb & Dizzy. It’s Because Creatine Boosts All Different Kinds Of Brain POWAH!
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Not All Substitutes Are Equal:
All cheekiness aside, we just did a post on the sexy people over at Eater’s test of the newest vegetable-only burger, by Impossible Foods.

But one of the ideas we raised at the end was: Maybe it tastes close now, maybe even identical in the future,

-But does it give you the same-or-better Nutrition when you take everything into consideration?

Well, one of Red Meat’s components is a salt called Creatine. And sciency-researchers are finding out some very interesting brain-stuff about its new best friend…

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Oh Pot, Is There Nothing You Can’t Make Better? -Marijuana’s THC Removes Alzheimer’s Junk From Brain

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Mind/Brain, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Oh Pot, Is There Nothing You Can’t Make Better? -Marijuana’s THC Removes Alzheimer’s Junk From Brain
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Reefer Madness Perhaps Not So Mad After All:
Now I know the stoner-crowd has a rep for being a bunch of hippie-dropouts who will use just about any pseudoscience available to defend their habit.

Because they want their drugs and that’s all there is to it. -Munchies be damned.

Well buckle-up Amanda Bynes, because !SCIENCE! just dropped one of the dankest jams in-favor of THC since the invention of the cannabinoid-receptor 600 million years ago.

(not counting any of the Magnum Opuses by Messrs. Cheech & Chong)…

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MIT Scientists Help Explain Zombies With Fiber Optics

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Gadgets, Mind/Brain

MIT Scientists Help Explain Zombies With Fiber Optics
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Ever feel like after last night’s over-40 drinking-binge you were barely making it through your day?

And though you were still technically on your feet, you felt like you were “half-asleep”?

Well thanks to MIT’s researchers, we’ve found out you were more right than you know…

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Digital Drugs: Thync’s Smartphone-Driven Relaxer Brings More Serious Science To The DIY Electric Brain-Hacking Set

Filed Under: Gadgets

Digital Drugs: Thync’s Smartphone-Driven Relaxer Brings More Serious Science To The DIY Electric Brain-Hacking Set
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For a little while now, people have been hacking their own brains with something called tDCS, or electrodes on the scalp, trying to enhance their mood and mental functioning.

-But the potentially-dangerous bro-science practice has had spotty results, until now.

Because a company called Thync has pooled a team of experts to change all that.

When their engineers & doctors looked at all the different effects and the conflicting studies surrounding the noggin-zaps, from improvements on…

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Your Brain May Be Sleep-Deprived But At Least That Morning Coffee Helps You Remember Why

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Nutrition

Your Brain May Be Sleep-Deprived But At Least That Morning Coffee Helps You Remember Why
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With all the recent bad news about sleep-problems being more serious than we thought before, here’s a bit of good news:

Coffee may be helping your brain in ways we didn’t previously know.

In this instance, a group of about 160 non-coffee-drinking adults were given pills while studying a series of images. One group got caffeine in those pills, and the other got placebos.

It turns out the caffeine group did noticeably-better on a certain type of deep-memory test 24 hours later…

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