Cognitive Abilities in The Ageing Brain

“Imagine someone who knows two people’s birthdays and can recall them almost perfectly. Would you really want to say that person has a better memory than a person who knows the birthdays of 2000 people, but can ‘only’ match the right person to the right birthday nine times out of ten?” This question was part of Dr. Michael Ramscar’s argument to explain his new study which refutes a previously accepted idea regarding the young and the old brains. While it was widely accepted that older brains decline in cognitive function…

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Exercise Eases Stress & Anxiety

Everyone knows about the benefits of exercise, it helps to keep our body fit and help fight disease. But apart from physical benefits, exercise can also provide mental fitness. It cannot make your problem disappear, instead will make your brain strong enough to cope up with them. Exercise play vital role in reducing exhaustion, enhancing alertness and other cognitive tasks. In fact, certain medical professionals also prescribe exercise when stress has taken its toll on energy level and fight off anxiety and depression.

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Rise In Caffeine Use Disorder Calls For Attention

  Most of the people consume caffeine in one form or the other, which help them to be focused and alert. Caffeine is found in a variety of products from coffee, tea, soda, energy drinks, OTC pain relievers, cocoa, chocolate bars and any other food and beverage products stamped with some type of the word “energy”. And therefore, caffeine is said to be widely consumed drug in the world. This caffeine addiction may lead a person suffer withdrawal symptoms and are reluctant to cut down on their caffeine intake. 

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Children with Debit Cards Eat More: A Research

Developing the taste for healthy food items in kids is tough for many parents. Things are tough for parents who are working or are not around their kids to watch them eating. Kids generally like to eat fast food & desserts and dislike to have healthy options such as fruits and vegetable. Unhealthy food raises the risk of obesity in children just as in adults. 

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Diet Beverages Won’t Help In Cutting Down The Excess Fat

For all those who are working hard to burn the flab from their body and are including all the diet alternatives like diet soda, available in the market, needs to think again. The latest research conducted at the Johns Hopkins University shows that the obese people opting diet soda often consume more calories from the food they have, than the overweight people drinking normal sugar-sweetened soda do. From 1965 to till date there is an increase of 17 percent in the diet soda sipping population. Now a days, about 20…

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Pain Sensitivity and the Brain

The grey matter of the brain is a major component of the central nervous system which includes regions of the brain involved in muscle control, sensory perception such as seeing and hearing, memory, emotions, speech, decision making, and self-control- Wikipedia. While grey matter is known to include “regions of the brain involved in muscle control, sensory perception such as seeing and hearing, memory, emotions, speech, decision making, and self-control”-Wikipedia, it is now thought to be involved in our sense of pain. A recent study conducted by scientists at Wake Forest…

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Coffee Strengthens Long Term Memory: A Research

Good news for all the coffee lovers! Until now, our favorite cup of coffee was helping us to stay alert. Now researchers from the Johns Hopkins University have found coffee could actually act as memory enhancer. Assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, Michael Yassa and his team revealed that caffeine has an encouraging outcome on deep rooted memory in humans and up to 24 hours after its consumption, certain memories can be very well retained. 

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Antioxidant Tiron, Can Protect Skin From Ageing

Researchers are trying to understand various factors responsible for ageing and how the process could be avoided or can be prolonged. In one of the earlier article we discussed about a research which could reverse the effect of ageing (applicable in mice so far). In another such study done at Newcastle University, researchers has found an antioxidant named Tiron which can provide effective shield against certain kind of sun damages and thus skin remain younger. 

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New Device for Transdermal Detection Of Malaria

In a new breakthrough in the world of medical examination, researchers from Rice University have successfully developed a new way to test Malaria through using a laser pulse, instead of blood testing. Although the new test has only been tried on mice so far, it was found to be safe in humans. Trials on mice have resulted on successful detection of malaria when only one in a million red blood cell was infected. The test inventor, Dmitri O. Lapotko, stated that the invented device could test one person every 20…

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Managing Stress Can Lead To Weight Loss

Technology has made our world simpler and a better place to live. Many tedious work has been now replaced by machines, giving humans more time to relax and enjoy. But with this comfort comes problem related to weight. And it is a known fact, that losing weight is difficult but even more challenging to keep it at bay. But don’t be disheartened with this news because as per the latest study conducted at University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, stress management intervention program can be effective in…

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Danger Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning During Winters

Winters breaking all records each year and pushing humans to dependent on heaters to cope up with this dip in temperature. With the increase in use of space heaters, humans are at increased risk of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning as-well. Carbon monoxide has been also termed as Silent Killer by fireman and paramedics because it is colorless, odorless and tasteless and easily goes unnoticed until it gets too late. 

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