Dr Jian Guan and cGPMAX™ – 35 years in the making.

Age-related memory decline is a by-product of the natural ageing process. While ageing is a part of life that we cannot change, we can control HOW we choose to age. Today, with increased awareness and advances in scientific research, we can make ageing more graceful...

Your Brain Needs Energy

The human brain consumes more energy than any other part of the body: The entire brain weighs three pounds (1.4 kg) and so is only a small percentage of an adult’s total body weight, typically 2%. But it consumes 20% of all the energy the body uses.   Why?...

Tips for Sudoku Beginners

5 Tips for Sudoku Beginners Sudoku, which has gained in popularity in the past dozen or so years, actually originates long before that, and not from where you might expect. Although “Sudoku” is a Japanese word (meaning “digit single”), it got that name only around...

Traffic and Tinnitus – is there a link?

Did you know that your stress levels can rocket without any warning? Because of the environment? For the first time, researchers from the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) have found a link between traffic noise exposure and its impact on hearing. The louder the...

Can you grow your hippocampus?

Yes. Here’s how, and why it matters By Dr. Majid Fotuhi A pair of thumb-sized structures deep in the center of the human brain are critical for our ability to learn and remember. Thanks to their shape, each of them is called hippocampus — which means seahorse in...