"On the Brain" with Dr. Michael Merzenich

Breakthrough study finds first intervention to reduce Alzheimer’s incidence New results from a large, 20-year, NIH-funded study (the ACTIVE Study) show it’s possible to prevent a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and related dementias.

A chemical critical to brain health showed surprising results in a new study A recent breakthrough neuroimaging study offers new hope for more effectively addressing the neurological deterioration underlying age-related cognitive loss, pre-dementia, and d…

Almost all of us in the United States and Canada will engage in that semi-annual ritual of adjusting our clocks by an hour.

We are in a season of fear.

One of the most interesting efforts targeting the development of anti-aging drugs stems from research conducted at Harvard that led to the identication of the compound in red wine (resveratrol) that accounts for its anti-aging properties.

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences led by a UCSF scientist Wen-Chi Hsueh has very interestingly revisited the subject of the genetics of human longevity.

Because my research has focused on the neuroscience of rehabilitation for several decades, I have received hundreds of email messages, letters and telephone calls from parents and grand-parents desperately seeking help for their brain-damaged or developme…

We haven’t spent much time at this site discussing the neurological parallels of human adolescence.

I’m in Evans Head, a beautiful small town on the north coast of New South Wales in Australia this morning, visiting an old friend Lindsay Aitkin, a retired research comrade.

In our last entry on this subject, we summarized risk factors for PTSD onset as follows: “You just DON’T want to be a) an ambidextrous b) Latino c) who has a history of cognitive or learning impairment and d) who suffers additional diffuse or localized br…