Whether mom’s golden child or her black sheep, siblings who sense that their mother consistently favors or rejects one child over others are more likely to show depressive symptoms as middle-aged adults, finds a new study by Cornell gerontologist Karl Pillemer. [continue reading…]
June 2010
Top, images from the brain of a cognitively normal volunteer; bottom, results from an Alzheimer's patient. Plaque buildup is shown in red-Image : Dr. Daniel Skovronsky.
Dr. Daniel Skovronsky sat at a small round table in his corner office, laptop open, waiting for an e-mail message. His right leg jiggled nervously.
A few minutes later, the message arrived — results that showed his tiny start-up company might have overcome one of the biggest obstacles in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease. It had found a dye and a brain scan that, he said, can show the hallmark plaque building up in the brains of people with the disease. continue reading
Source: New York Times
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.”
— John Wanamaker, 19th-century U.S. department store pioneer
In a study with implications for the advertising industry and public health organizations, UCLA neuroscientists have shown they can use brain scanning to predict whether people will use sunscreen during a one-week period even better than the people themselves can.
“There is a very long history within psychology of people not being very good judges of what they will actually do in a future situation,” said the study’s senior author, Matthew Lieberman, a UCLA professor of psychology and of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences. “Many people ‘decide’ to do things but then don’t do them.” [continue reading…]
David Sinclair talks about resveratrol and wonders “Can a pill a day help keep aging away?”
Source: TEDmed
