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“Higher exposure was linked to changes in both brain structure and motor skills: Children with higher prenatal exposure showed variation in the thickness of the brain's outer layer, with thicker regions involved in planning, attention, and memory, and thinner ones near the top of the brain that support spatial awareness and coordination.”

“Regularly managing more than one language repeatedly engages attention, executive function (the systems that manage goals and task switching), and memory, and this sustained mental effort may strengthen vulnerable circuits in the brain.”

“Many described better overall mental well-being, greater psychological flexibility, meaning an improved ability to adapt thoughts and behaviors, and higher self-efficacy, or confidence in following through on goals.”

“Chemotherapy often causes problems with memory, concentration, and mental fatigue, but clinics still do not have a standard way to treat these symptoms. In a large new trial, researchers tested whether a simple at-home exercise plan could help protect cognitive function during treatment and support healthy immune activity among cancer patients.”

“Participants performed a series of clinically validated online tasks assessing their emotional processing abilities, as well as cognitive skills such as attention, problem solving, and working memory.”

“One of the mechanisms that may drive the harmful effects of caffeine on the brain is caffeine’s blockade of the brain’s adenosine A2 receptors, which have been found to play a crucial role in enabling a subregion of the hippocampus (a structure involved in memory formation) to undergo plasticity and learning.”

“Specifically, hypertension was associated with loss of peripheral cortical gray matter, brain tissue necessary for higher brain functions such as learning, memory, and attention. Participants diagnosed with hypertension between ages 35 and 44 were at a 61 percent higher risk of dementia than the matched control participants without hypertension.”

“In this study, researchers collected information about the eating patterns of 445 children (aged 11 to 12 years) from diverse families in one county in the United States, through a series of detailed interviews conducted by dietitians with the children and their parents.”

“Next, they fed fruit flies either ordinary whey powder (a dairy product that contains bacteriophages) or sterilized, virus-free whey powder. Then they duplicated the experiment using isolated bacteriophages. In both scenarios, production of genes in the flies' brains that are associated with memory increased.”

“Clumps of APOE protein present in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive memory loss, spatial disorientation, cognitive dysfunction, and behavioral changes.”