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Feed Your Hippocampus, Feed Your Memory

Flavanols, found in fruits, vegetables and cocoa, help keep the brain sharp. Overcoming a deficiency of these nutrients improved recall. >

Exercise Improves Recovery from Stroke

Strokes can produce weakness or paralysis in various parts of the body. Exercise helps stroke patients recover function faster and better. >

For Seniors, Time Online Can Bring Benefits

Older adults who surfed the Web regularly had a considerably lower risk of mental decline compared with those who spent no time online. >

Why We Go Gray

By age 50 or so, the hair on many people's heads has begun to gray. Now we know why this is. And the discovery may offer a way to avoid it. >

Age Can Be Just a Number

Your attitude toward aging makes a difference. Staying positive and young at heart helps people recover from mild cognitive impairment. >

Shut-Eye and Dementia

It was a finding that surprised even researchers -- not every kind of senior sleep difficulty predicted dementia. Only one issue did. >

A Common Chemical's Connection to Parkinson's

Trichloroethylene is in our air and water. It's used in dry cleaning, to degrease metal and remove paint. PD seems linked to high exposures. >

Greens Make the Brain Younger

Eating a mostly plant-based diet appears to reduce the proliferation of proteins in the brain that contribute to cognitive decline. >

Can Prostate Cancer Treatment Be Delayed?

Men with localized prostate cancer were followed for 15 years. There was little difference in outcomes among those treated and untreated. >

Vitamin D for Dementia

Seniors don't always get enough vitamin D. For those that do, the risk of developing dementia drops 40%. You can take too much, however. >

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