Category: brain health

Australian University Invents New Tech Helping People With Aphasia Write Their Stories

June 22, 2022
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Scientists from Australia’s Monash University have worked out a new technology to help people with aphasia to communicate. Teaming up with Monash Health speech pathologists and their patients, students from the Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) and Monash Young Medtech Innovators (MYMI) have designed Project QWERTY, a free website that offers a high-tech but…

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Avoiding the Toxic Effects of Aluminum

June 21, 2022
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The human body is an electrochemical miracle. While we often think of it as a fleshy machine of sorts, it can be more likened to a constantly changing collection of chemicals and electrical signals that’s continuously rebuilding itself and responding to your mental state, food, air intake, physical activity, and environment. This biochemical landscape of…

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Tapping Into Your Vagus Nerve

June 19, 2022
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Do you know which group of people studies and applies practices based on the intricacies of the nervous system? Athletes. Athletes, especially professional and elite athletes who are at the forefront in biohacking, are quite curious and knowledgeable about improving their vagal tone. Vagal tone refers to the activity of the vagus nerve. This nerve…

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2 Types of Super Brain Foods to Defeat Dementia and Alzheimer’s

June 18, 2022
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In a Ted Talk, Neal Barnard, M.D., president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, spoke about his father, who had passed away from Alzheimer’s disease. His father became ill a few years before he passed. The first symptom was memory loss, and as time went by, his memory became increasingly worse. In the end,…

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Treating the Brain Through the Eyes

June 15, 2022
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Have you ever heard of vision therapy? Not the eye muscle-building type, but the professionally administered vision therapy that actually makes changes in the brain? The individualized progressive treatment that uses optical devices such as prisms, filters, and lights, and integrates motor and cognitive skills? You’ve never heard of it? Then read on. More than 50…

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Is Walking Enough Exercise? How Many Steps Is Enough to Reduce Dementia?

June 14, 2022
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Walking has been proven to bring many health benefits. However, can walking alone provide the amount of exercise the body needs? What are the different effects of walking 2,000 versus 10,000 steps a day? According to Harvard Medical School, walking brings five surprising benefits: First, walking can counteract the effects of weight-promoting genes. In more…

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New Tech May Open Up the World of Gaming to Disabled Individuals

June 9, 2022
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Researchers from the University of Sydney are developing a 3D printed sensor bracelet that could allow individuals living with hand impairment to easily use computers and play video games that require handheld controllers. People with cerebral palsy and motor neurone disease struggle with hand movement, preventing them from gaming or using computers. However, this new…

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Brain Regeneration: Can Infrared Light Reverse Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s?

June 9, 2022
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, brain regeneration is possible. One promising therapy that promotes neurogenesis and is effective in pre-clinical studies of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s is near infrared light therapy, and it may improve other mental illnesses and neurodegenerative disorders including dementia, stroke, ALS, and traumatic brain injury as well Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are…

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The Vagus Nerve: A New Frontier of Brain-Body Medicine

June 9, 2022
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To access the benefits of mind-body medicine, you may want to familiarize yourself with the vagus nerve, which is a two-way communication system between the brain and your organs. The 10th of the 12 cranial nerves, the vagus nerve is responsible for regulating emotional and physiological well-being. It’s the longest nerve in the autonomic nervous…

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COVID Vaccines Linked to New Type of Incurable, Fatal Degenerative Brain Disorder

June 8, 2022
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Studies suggest a link between an incurable and fatal prion disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and COVID-19 vaccines. Researchers believe the prion region from the original Wuhan COVID-19 variant’s spike protein was incorporated into mRNA vaccines and adenovirus vector vaccines — given to hundreds of millions of humans — and that it can cause a new type of rapidly progressing…

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