In neuroscience, “HM” was a superstar of brain research. This man, who had suffered from epileptic seizures since he was a teenager, was 27 when surgeons took a radical approach to treat his malady. In 1953 they operated and removed his brain’s anterior temporal lobe, including most of the amygdala..
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New research has found that hearing loss in the elderly may speed up the onset of dementia and cognitive impairment. The study, done by the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, was recently published online by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, according to a press release from Johns Hopkins...
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Maybe those Catholic school nuns were wiser than we thought. Handwriting is important, a skill that “is a major building block to learning,” according to a story Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531932754922518.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_lifestyle Headlined “How Handwriting Trains The Brain,” the article says that researcher have found that writing by hand “helps ..
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Date: 11/24/2008 By LAURAN NEERGAARDAP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) _ Just in time for the holidays, some medical advice most people will like: Take a nap. Interrupting sleep seriously disrupts memory-making, compelling new research suggests. But on the flip side, taking a nap may boost a sophisticated kind of memory..
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