neuroplasticity
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Brain & Aging
Magic Mushrooms and an 80-Year-Old's Memory: What the Hype Actually Has, and What It Doesn't
An 80-something woman with advanced Alzheimer's took five grams of mushrooms and started speaking again. The biology behind why that might happen is real. The trial base it rests on is thinner than the headlines admit.
Brain & AgingBrain Gains Into Your 90s Are Probably Real. The Index Measuring Them Has a Patent Pending.
A three-year UT Dallas study tracking nearly 4,000 adults to age 94 says brain function can climb at any age. The biology is plausible. The catch is that the people measuring the gain are the same people patenting the yardstick.