Program 04 · 9 articles
Cognitive Wellness
What protects the brain over decades looks a lot like what protects the heart. Here is what that means in practice, starting in midlife.
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Why Smart People Still Make Terrible Decisions
Intelligence gives you more tools for reasoning. It also gives you more tools for rationalizing what you already want to believe. 02The Loneliness Epidemic That’s Aging Your Brain
Loneliness is emotional, but its consequences are not confined to emotion. 03Brain Fog Isn’t Normal – Here’s What Might Be Behind It
'Brain fog' is not a diagnosis. It is a description - and descriptions are where good questions should begin, not end. 04ADHD or Dopamine Addiction?
A distracted brain in a hyper-stimulating world is not automatically ADHD - and calling everything 'dopamine addiction' is not neuroscience either. 05What a Standard Annual Physical Doesn’t Check
Guideline screening asks whether you have crossed a threshold that requires treatment. That is a different question from where your physiology is heading — and most people have only ever been asked the first. 06What Your Blood Vessels Have to Do With Your Memory
Much of what determines cognitive trajectory is vascular, and the risk factors overlap heavily with the ones associated with heart disease. 07Cognitive Reserve: Why Two Brains Age Differently
Some brains tolerate a given burden of pathology with less functional consequence than others. What the evidence supports, and what it does not. 08What protects the brain looks a lot like what protects the heart
Midlife blood pressure, glucose, hearing and activity show up in cognitive outcomes decades later. 09Sleep, focus, and the brain’s overnight work
What happens during sleep explains most of what people are trying to fix with caffeine.Other programs
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