Brain Health & Aging

September is World Alzheimer's Month

September 2018 is the seventh annual World Alzheimer’s Month, an international campaign to raise dementia awareness and challenge stigma. According to Alzheimer’s Disease International, someone in the world develops dementia every three seconds. Worldwide, there are over 50 million people living with dementia in 2018; if effective risk-reduction strategi...

Exercise and Aging: You're Never Too Old to Benefit

Do you think you’re too old to exercise? According to Dr. John Ratey, Harvard psychiatrist and author of Go Wild and Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, it's never too late to get in shape. At the 2017 BrainFutures conference, Dr. Ratey confirmed that you can stave off the aging process and prevent chronic diseases by exercising regu...