Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: Everything You Need to Know Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder that causes brain cells to waste away and die. It occurs when nerve cells in the brain die. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of fast-growing psychological disease of dementia in the elderly. Dementia is a brain disease … Read more
Learning disabilities, also called learning disorders, are neurologically-based processing problems that can affect a person’s ability to process information and interfere with cognitive skills or learning basic skills such as reading, writing and/or math. These processing problems can also interfere with higher-level skills such as abstract reasoning, time planning, organization, long or short term memory, … Read more
How the brain enables us to rapidly focus attention? How the brain enables us to rapidly focus attention? Researchers at the University of Queensland have discovered an important mechanism in the brain that can underlie our ability to rapidly focus attention. Our brain is constantly bombarded with information of the senses, yet our level of … Read more
Fake news – A challenge for our age Fake news – A challenge for our age – How can we protect our brain from the fake news? The fake news is defined as “fabricated information that mimics news media content in form but not in organizational process or intent and occurred to create false discussion … Read more
The inability to recover memory is one of the most common causes of forgetfulness. So why can’t we often get information from memory? There are many theories about why memories and information are forgotten over time, including trace decay, cue-dependent forgetting, and interference theory. Let’s understand why we forget things? Here’s the secret to improving … Read more