Barbara Strauch Speaks on the Middle Aged Brain

Barbara Strauch, author of The Secret Life of the Grown Up Brain, spoke this week at Stanford.  Strauch is the health/medical science editor for The New York Times and when she writes on brain topics, the articles consistently skyrocket to the top of the “Most E-mailed List.”  I attended her lecture at the Center for [...]

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Posted October 1, 2010 by Sharon Delman under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, Exercise, Neuroscience, Physical exercise

A New Age of Centenarians

I just found out that more than half of babies born in developed countries today will live to be more than 100 years old. That’s a lot of centenarians. Apparently, with each passing year humankind (in rich countries, at least) gains an average of 3 months of extra life expectancy, thanks to medical advances. As [...]

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Posted April 7, 2010 by Marghi Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies