Collecting My Thoughts

An estimated 283,000 children seek care in U.S. emergency departments each year for a sports- or recreation-related traumatic brain injury (...

A new study led by UNC School of Medicine researchers concluded that patterns of white matter microstructure present at birth and that de...

"Poor diets lead to a host of medical issues: obesity , cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and certain cancers. But diet also influenc...

"A pair of thumb-sized struc­tures deep in the cen­ter of the human brain are crit­i­cal for our abil­ity to learn and remem­ber. Than...

I won't go into detail--if you have a computer you can google it--but I read about 2 exciting advancements for Alzheimer's and demen...

I have one or two cups of dark chocolate drink in the morning.  I make my own brew. Lately, I’ve been having the chocolate drink before my c...

At Metro Fitness today I chatted with a woman who is a personal care giver; she exercises 3 hours a day, she told me. Her client is in her...

It would appear there’s much more going on in being male or female than surgically changing the genitals or adding hormones. I guess scienti...

It’s difficult for me to put the word ethics and President Obama in the same sentence—he lied about his support for gay marriage in 2008 in ...

I've had conversations with people whose brains were damaged by alcohol and those who have Alzheimer's, and trust me, there's ve...

Pot users are absent from work (and life) more, injured more often on the job and bad decisions are more common. Regular pot use interferes ...

“The list of chemicals that can affect brain development in children has grown. In a study out today in The Lancet Neurology , researchers ...

1.  First the best one—eat more dark chocolate .  “ The cacao bean, from which chocolate is made, is  complex, containing more than 400 ch...

The hottest book publishing trend today--less is the new more, says Michael Levin, founder and CEO of BusinessGhost, Inc., who has written m...

It's a great imponderable. My faith and church informs me that God loves all his children, from conception to old age death, both those ...

What's another term for free lance writer? Unemployed. Whether they call themselves writers, journalists or free lancers, they are reall...

Do you read the ads? This morning I noticed a full page ad for Allstate. Why do most 16 year olds drive like they are missing part of their...

3496 Brain aging--a test The book Making a good brain great has a quiz for risk factors for diseases of brain aging. The number in paren...