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Summary: Some people feel absolutely nothing when listening to music—and not because of bad taste. A rare condition called specific musical anhedonia involves a disconnect between the brain’s auditory and reward systems, making music emotionally flat even though other rewards like food or money still trigger pleasure. New insights from researchers explore how this condition reveals the nuanced ways our …

Superagers’ Brains Are Different: Here’s How  MedPage Today How Do ‘Super-Agers’ Stay Young? What 25 Years of Research Has Revealed.  The New York Times What makes a SuperAger?  Northwestern Now News 80-year-old ‘SuperAger’ brain operates like that of a 50-year-old. Here’s why  CNN ‘SuperAgers’ over 80 share strong memory and social lifestyles, Northwestern study finds  NBC News Source link

A donated SuperAger brain at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. Shane Collins, Northwestern University hide caption toggle caption Shane Collins, Northwestern University The human brain tends to slow down as we age — even healthy brains shrink. That can make learning and memory harder as people age. But some people’s brains shrink more slowly than their peers. This lucky group is …

In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging — the humble metal lithium. Lithium is best known to medicine as a mood stabilizer given to people who have bipolar disorder and depression. It was …

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the cruelest conditions a person can develop. And even with recent advances, there’s only so much that can be done once its symptoms emerge. Research out this week might highlight a critical and previously missed factor driving the disease, one that could even lead to new treatments. Scientists at Harvard Medical School led the study, …

To find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, we need to understand how and where it gets started, and new research suggests we might be looking in the wrong place. Scientists from the US and Germany have linked genetic risk for Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases to the blood-brain barrier – the blood vessels and immune cells that surround and protect …

Facebook Tweet Email Link The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember — it’s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called “SuperAgers,” who possess a brain that fights back. For these people, memories stay as sharp as they were 30 or more years in the past. Carol Siegler, who lives in the Chicago …

Facebook Tweet Email Link In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging — the humble metal lithium. Lithium is best known to medicine as a mood stabilizer given to people who have bipolar disorder …

Phyllis Jones spent nearly 10 years watching her mother succumb to Alzheimer’s.  Decades earlier, her mother had taken care of her grandmother the same way, as she was also struck by the most common form of memory-robbing dementia.   Now 66, Jones was headed toward being caught in the generational cycle herself. Like 100 million Americans, the Illinois grandmother-of-two was prediabetic and …

The president this weekend repeated his worthwhile promise to get pharma companies to lower the cost of medications for Americans, who often have to pay much more for certain drugs than people abroad. But the actual amount of the “tremendous drop” in cost that Trump boasted about had critics scratching their heads. “You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1,200, …