About 2 months ago, a study came out in the British Medical Journal claiming that breast milk had no effect on infant brain development and intelligence.

Does listening to Mozart make you smarter? According to a landmark neuroscience research study out of the University of California, Mozart’s sonata for two pianos K448 (which you can listen to below) can increase your spatial-temporal IQ scores by 9 points

A new study reveals that both green and black tea have the ability to inhibit the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE). This enzyme is important, because it breaks down the acetylcholine, a key neurotransmitter in the brain.

Just read an article on WebMD that discusses new research out of the University of Florida.

The study, published in The Journal of Pediatrics, reveals that children who are obese by age 4 are more likely to have lower IQ scores.

Specifically, children that weigh 150% more than their ideal weight had IQ scores that were 25-30 points lower.

Compared to those who drank less than one glass of fruit or vegetable juice per week, those who drank three or more were 76% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Qi Dai and colleagues out of Vanderbilt School of Medicine reported these results in the September issue of The American Journal of Medicine.

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Although I’m still wondering how Grandma knew “fish is brain food”, while leafing through my latest issue of Archives of Neurology, I came across another neat study that illustrates how beneficial DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid) is for your brain.

Back in the 1950s, all school kids in England were given daily cod liver oil. Smart parents have known for a long time that seafood is good for young brains

A new study done by Scott Hemby and colleagues at Wake Forest University of Medicine finds that long term cocaine use leads to “profound changes in brain function”.

Cocaine, Ritalin (amphetamines), and coffee all work differently on the brain, but in the end, they are all stimulants, and they can all induce euphoria by modulating the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

Out of the many different types of vegetables, green leafy vegetables appear to be most effective in protecting the brain from memory loss as we get older. At least according to a new study out of Rush University Medical center in Chicago and published in the journal Neurology.

A new study that tracked 2500 Australian children for 16 years found that babies breastfed for less than six months had a 61% increased risk of mental health problems at 8 years of age than those children breastfed for longer.

The study was done by a team at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth.

One of the hormones that control appetite is leptin. Released by fat cells, it normally crosses into the brain and tells it to stop eating.

In many obese people, however, leptin is unable to cross into the brain, as it has trouble penetrating the blood-brain barrier.

Now a new study reveals that not only does leptin regulate appetite, but it

A natural chemical (flavonoid) found in strawberries has recently been shown to boost long-term memory formation in mice.

The chemical is called Fisetin

Most forms of dementia are not very treatable or reversible. For example, there is not much you can really do for patients with Alzheimer’s disease or multi-infarct dementia when it comes to reversing the memory loss and cognitive decline.

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalous and Celiac disease, however, are two fairly common reversible dementias frequently misdiagnosed and overlooked.

Traditional Persian medicine holds that saffron is useful in treating depression. Came across a study published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology

New research with pomegranate juice is revealing how the fruit may turn out to be a super brain food.

A new study (by lead researcher Richard Hartman out of Loma Linda University in California) published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease

In the 1950s, apparently all kids in England got daily cod liver oil capsules at school.

Not sure when this stopped, but a

Would you like to live longer AND maintain superior brain health? Then you need to learn to raise & increase to your HDL cholesterol levels…

Interestingly, in what has been referred to as the "Methuselah Syndrome", people with