Dr. Steven Schlozman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard, was watching Night of the Living Dead one night, when he asked himself, “What could be happening in the brain of zombies to make them act as they do?” (I’m paraphrasing a little, but that’s the gist.) He thought more about it, and came up with [...]

There’s a lot of buzz about distracted driving these days.  Maybe it’s because we’re all so distracted that we don’t actually pay attention to the staggering statistics that illustrate what happens when you allow your eyes and mind to wander on the road. We work with the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and they report [...]

In my view the most impressive outcome from a cognitive training study is the 51% reduction in at-fault crash rates found in the ACTIVE study. ACTIVE is an acronym for Advanced Cognitive Training in the Independent and Vital Elderly. It is the largest clinical trial to examine the effects of cognitive training with almost 3000 [...]

I attended a talk by Dr. Frank Longo last night at Stanford. Frank is Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford and he walked the audience of a few hundred people through emerging treatments for cognitive health. One of the topics he touched on was the importance of physical exercise in [...]

I was reading an article the other day about a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience that measured brain speed and intelligence, and found a correlation between the two. The more intelligent people in the study had faster brains. You can read more about this study on NPR. According to the authors, brain [...]

Why isn’t brain health top of mind? Recently I’ve been speaking to people all over the country about what a healthy lifestyle means to them.  The reason I’m doing this is to understand where brain health fits in with overall health: eating right, exercise and emotional health.  What I mostly hear from folks is that [...]