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A few years ago, I spent some time volunteering at a community center for adults sixty-five and older. There was one man in ...

Speed-of-processing cognitive training in older adults significantly reduced dementia risk over 20 years, outperforming memory and reasoning training. Its adaptive, implicit learning approach may ...

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Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin ...

Gut microbiome changes may drive age-related memory loss via inflammation and disrupted brain signaling, but interventions in mice show this process can be reversed.

A new study by researchers from University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University suggests age-related changes in gut ...

If you develop Alzheimer's disease, you not only lose your sense of time, but you also lose your sense of place. Could time ...