Sleep and cognition
It goes without saying that sleep is important.
Category: Brain Imaging
Cardiovascular health may prevent cognitive decline.
The term “synergy” may be overused in the business world but in medicine, we’re still ok with it. I always like to point out ways to affect more than one area with a single effort.
Mediterranean diet improves brain appearance.
I’ve recently written on physical activity and brain appearance: Another study shows exercise may make the brain look better. Physically fit people have better looking
Another study shows exercise may make the brain look better.
In a post from last July, I reported that people who performed best on a treadmill test for physical fitness, also had better looking brains with less atrophy – or shrinkage. Another study has a similar finding.
Physically fit people have better looking….. Brains!
Physical fitness may certainly help a person look good on the outside. But a new study in Neurology found that fit people have better looking brains as well. In a study called Cardiorespiratory fitness and brain volume and white matter integrity, researchers studied 565 middle-aged adults (average age 45), starting by measuring their degree of […]
SSRIs and risk of brain hemorrhage – some encouraging data.
Mention risk of bleeding with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medications and many doctors will look at you quizzically.
Some new information on migraine and changes on brain MRI scans
It is very common for a brain MRI report to say something like:
