For the 6.2 million Americans currently affected by Alzheimer’s disease, the condition can be truly debilitating – interfering with judgment, distorting personality, erasing precious memories, and torpedoing the potential of many seniors to live independently.  While pharmaceutical treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia have yielded disappointing results, brand-new research – involving a simple, natural intervention…

Liu Jun Zi Tang, also known as the Six Major Herb Combo Decoction, is an enduring herbal prescription used in China and South Korea for more than 500 years. Historically, the decoction’s primary use has been to treat functional dyspepsia and depression—but a recent study of Korean medicine, published in the international academic journal Frontiers…

A study of an international chess tournament has revealed that wearing a face mask significantly reduced the average quality of player decisions, impacting the cognitive performance of competitive chess players. Australian chess Grandmaster and University of Queensland Prof. David Smerdon analysed almost three million chess moves played by 8,531 people in 18 countries before and…

Some 50 House Republicans on Wednesday called on President Joe Biden to take a cognitive test amid questions about his fitness and mental acuity. The letter, led by former White House doctor and current Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), said that the lawmakers are concerned with Biden’s cognitive abilities. “We again write to you to express…

Some young and healthy people improve performance on cognitive tasks while walking by changing the use of neural resources, according to a new study. It has long been thought that when walking is combined with a task—both suffer. The new research finds that this is not always the case. However, the new findings don’t necessarily…

Awareness Tara came to see me when she was in her mid-30s. By her own account, she had devoted the previous 10 years of her life to conquering and eliminating her obsessive and, as she called it, unstoppable thinking. She had been devoted to self-help for a decade and tried anything and everything to convince…