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Why Does Alzheimer’s Affect Women More Than Men? A New Clue

May 4, 2026

Why Does Alzheimer’s Affect Women More Than Men? A New Clue

For decades, one of the most striking and often overlooked features of Alzheimer’s disease is this: it affects women about twice as often as men. Why would that be? Is it simply that women live longer?…

Not Just Getting High: How Weed Changes Your Brain’s Future

April 29, 2026

Not Just Getting High: How Weed Changes Your Brain’s Future

We are having the wrong conversation with young people about brain health. We tend to frame it as something that matters decades from now, something tied to aging or genetics. But the truth is far more immed…

Alzheimer’s Disease – Viral Therapy to the Rescue

April 28, 2026

Alzheimer’s Disease – Viral Therapy to the Rescue

For decades, we’ve been asking the wrong question about Alzheimer’s disease. We have focused intensely on what to remove, amyloid plaques, without fully understanding who is responsible for removing them. Th…

Emojis Are Rewiring Your Brain (Especially the Angry Ones)

April 27, 2026

Emojis Are Rewiring Your Brain (Especially the Angry Ones)

We tend to think of emojis as harmless, simple digital decorations that soften language, add humor, or clarify tone. But emerging neuroscience suggests something far more consequential. A recent EEG-based st…

Brain Benefits for Weekend Warriors

April 13, 2026

Brain Benefits for Weekend Warriors

For decades, I’ve been emphasizing the importance of exercise as one of the most powerful tools we have to protect the brain. It improves insulin sensitivity, enhances mitochondrial function, increases BDNF,…

Reflections and Hope From Antarctica

March 26, 2026

Reflections and Hope From Antarctica

As many of you know, my wife and I recently had the incredible opportunity to visit Antarctica. It is difficult to adequately describe the experience of arriving in a place so vast, so pristine, and so profo…

Alzheimer’s and Autism – Two Sides of the Same Coin

March 24, 2026

Alzheimer’s and Autism – Two Sides of the Same Coin

At first glance, autism and Alzheimer’s disease appear to exist at opposite ends of the neurological spectrum, one a condition of early brain development, the other a disease of later-life degeneration. But …

Breathing CO2 to Boost Brain Detox? What the Latest Study Reveals

March 10, 2026

Breathing CO2 to Boost Brain Detox? What the Latest Study Reveals

A fascinating new study explores a topic I have written about many times before: the brain’s waste clearance system, known as the glymphatic system. As I have discussed in previous blogs, one of the most imp…

Cheese Consumption Linked to Lower Dementia Risk

March 5, 2026

Cheese Consumption Linked to Lower Dementia Risk

A 25-year prospective analysis from the Malmö Diet and Cancer cohort evaluated the associations between high-fat and low-fat dairy intake and incident dementia in 27,670 Swedish adults. Dietary assessment co…

Can the Mediterranean Diet Help Prevent Stroke in Women?

February 26, 2026

Can the Mediterranean Diet Help Prevent Stroke in Women?

A recent meta-analysis published in Neurology offers encouraging news: women who closely follow a Mediterranean-style diet appear to have about a 12 percent lower risk of stroke. That finding is important…

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