Impact of head injuries in children

Head injuries in children linked to reduced brain size and learning difficulties: Traumatic brain injury may lead to reduced brain size in some children and...

Music on the brain – the RSM Brain Series

Last week Professor Catherine Loveday delivered a lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine’s 2018 Brain Series lecture to a packed auditorium of doctors and...

Life is all memory

We’ve all forgotten to pack our toothbrush for the holiday, or the reason why we went up the stairs. But for some older people, robbed...

Electric currents can boost memory

Stimulating the brain with electric current can boost memory, according to scientists at Imperial College, London. They found that applying a low voltage current can...

Open access to memory clinics

Around 850,000 people in the UK are living with dementia, but the number of people who actually have the condition without being given a formal...

Soya

Consuming too many soya products like tofu might increase the risk for memory loss, according to some studies. One study published in April 2000 in...

A Modern Apothecary Garden

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food – Hippocrates. What we eat is the most important way to prevent disease, so nutrition...