Brain Body Health Action

06/02/2025

05/30/2025

Coolest structure EVER: The Thalamus. So cool we made a video tutorial about it. Go watch it and get smart!

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05/29/2025

Doctors at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed the world's first bionic eye, known as the Gennaris Bionic Vision System. This groundbreaking device aims to restore vision by bypassing damaged optic nerves and transmitting signals directly to the brain's visual cortex. The system comprises a miniature camera mounted on custom-designed headgear, a vision processor unit, and up to 11 wireless implants placed on the brain's surface. These implants deliver patterned electrical stimulation, enabling users to perceive visual information. Following successful animal trials, human clinical trials are set to commence in Melbourne, offering new hope for individuals with untreatable blindness.

05/29/2025

Vitamin D is essential for so many things, including healthy sleep!

05/28/2025

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🔬The study was designed to assess whether meditation is associated with a reduced brain age. Mid-life is when aging processes are known to become more prominent, so it looked at ages 50 and beyond.

📈 Findings

Brains of meditators were estimated to be 7.5 years younger than those of the control group who did not meditate.

And for every additional year over fifty, meditators’ brains were estimated to be an additional 1 month and 22 days younger than their chronological age.

Other meditation based studies have shown that certain areas of the brain, like the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala, undergo significant changes with consistent meditation practice. This can lead to enhanced cognitive function, emotional regulation, and stress resilience.

Learn more about the mediation/brain connection 👉🏼 https://www.qualialife.com/what-does-meditation-do-to-the-brain-the-exact-science-behind-it

05/27/2025

New study shows marriage is linked to a higher risk of developing dementia.

The findings are the result of an 18-year study published in Alzheimer's & Dementia.

Researchers from Florida State University and the University of Montpellier found that older adults who were divorced or never married had a lower chance of getting dementia compared to those who were married.

The study followed more than 24,000 people who were dementia-free at the start and tracked their health for up to 18 years.

About 22% of married people developed dementia during the study, while only around 13% of divorced and never-married people did. Even after taking into account age, health problems, lifestyle habits, and genetic risks, the results stayed the same.

The researchers also found that unmarried people were less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia, but marriage did not seem to affect the risk of other types of dementia like vascular dementia. Interestingly, unmarried people were also less likely to go from mild memory problems to full dementia.

These findings challenge the long-standing belief that marriage always helps protect brain health.

Other research has suggested that it may not be marriage itself, but the strength of a person's social connections, that matters most for brain health.

A 2022 study published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience found that people with strong social networks — whether they were married or not — had better cognitive health and a lower risk of dementia. This means that for married people, staying socially active and emotionally connected could still offer important protection for the brain, even if marriage alone does not guarantee it.

learn more: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.70072

05/26/2025

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05/22/2025

Meet Terence Tao, the person with the highest IQ on the planet at an astonishing 230. The article discusses his groundbreaking contributions to mathematics and what it means to be officially recognized as the smartest person alive today.