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Maintain your brain: The secrets to aging success

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Aging may seem unavoidable, but that’s not necessarily so when it comes to the brain. So say researchers in the April 27th issue of the Cell Press journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences explaining that it is what you do in old age that matters more when it comes to maintaining a youthful brain not what you did earlier in life.

Childhood socioeconomic status affects brain volume

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(HealthDay) — Childhood socioeconomic status affects hippocampal volume in older adults, after adjusting for adult socioeconomic status, gender, education, and other factors, according to a study published in the May issue of the Annals of Neurology.

Growing up as a neural stem cell: The importance of clinging together and then letting go

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Can one feel too attached? Does one need to let go to mature? Neural stem cells have this problem, too.

Taking it all in: Revealing how we sense things

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McGill physiology research team sheds light on how the brain processes what we sense.

Clinical decline in Alzheimer’s requires plaque and proteins

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According to a new study, the neuron-killing pathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which begins before clinical symptoms appear, requires the presence of both amyloid-beta (a-beta) plaque deposits and elevated levels of an altered protein called p-tau.

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