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10.21.2009 4:11 pm

New Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease under development

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I spent last week in Lebanon at a conference organized by Saint George Hospital and the University of Balamand. In Lebanon approximately 60% of the population are muslim and the rest christian. While I was there I had the opportunity…

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09.12.2009 7:02 am

Lets Move

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This blog is written from Holland, where I just gave the keynote address at a Conference at Radboud University in Nijmegen. The conference focused on the science of movement. As succinctly put by the organizer, Professor Sander Geurts “The motto…

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09.07.2009 6:28 pm

Does football make you stupid ?

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My grandchild, Amanda, consistently tells me that “stupid” is a very bad word and it should never be used. However over a lifetime of doing very stupid things myself and watching others being equally stupid, I have become rather enamoured…

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08.14.2009 4:32 pm

Food and Exercise : The keys to preventing Alzheimer’s Disease and other Dementias

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Two important publications appeared in yesterdays issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.The first article found that in persons in New York who ate predominantly a Mediterranean diet had a reduced chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease.They also reported that…

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06.23.2009 4:42 pm

Five ways to boost your brain power

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Sondra Kornblatt, author of “A Better Brain at Any Age: The Holistic Way to Improve Your Memory, Reduce Stress, and Sharpen Your Wits” (Conari Press, December 2008), offers five tips to boost your brain power by creating new neural pathways.  Here…
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