Nation of Poor Sleepers Insufficient sleep affects 50-70 million adults in the United States. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call poor sleep a “public health problem”, and many studies demonstrate that sleep problems increase one’s risk for...
A long-term study of initially healthy 65-year-olds found that those who slept the least (about five hours or less without waking) tended to have fewer neurons (brain cells) in a part of the brain that controls sleep. Also: Many in the study who developed...
In a new study out of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, it was found that stress is linked to dimentia. Lena Johansson, PhD, tracked 800 women for approximately 40 years. Those who experienced significant stress, such as divorce, widowhood, loss of a child, or...
In a recent study by Dr. Robert Wilson, a senior neuropsychologist at Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Chicago, 300 adults were given thinking and memory tests. Those who actively participated in reading, writing, and similar activities had a 32% lower rate of...
