Brain, Health

Stimulating! How far would you go to improve your study skills?

Thousands of years ago, one therapy often used to reduce symptoms of arthritis and other pain, involved sitting in a tank of electric eels! How bad would your pain have to be for you to consider doing that? Some 70 years ago electric shock therapy was sometimes used in psychiatric [...]

Memory

How do antioxidants improve memory?

Exercise may be good for you, but all that hard work and strain on your body creates free radicals – that is to say, unstable molecules, missing an electron, and seeking to steal one from the nearest available source – often the cells of your body, thus rendering those cells [...]

Memory

Eat Less – Remember More!

Eat Less – Remember More! You’ve probably heard that a restricted-calorie diet for mice makes them live longer. Some people have followed their example in the hope that it’s the same for human beings. It’s all to do with the length of particular DNA structures called ‘telomeres’ on the end [...]