Jeeves Was Right – Eating Fish Increases Your Brain Size

New research presented by Dr. Cyrus Raji at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago found that eating baked or broiled fish (not fried) increases your brain volume in the hippocampus and frontal lobes....

10 Tips for Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease

Recently a friend sent me an overview of Jean Carper’s book, “100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s and Age-Related Memory Loss”. Even though it was published in 2010, the review was a good summary of the top ten things you can do...

Chemo Brain

A study published in the November issue of the Archives of Neurology validated the claims made by patients that they suffered from reduced cognitive function after receiving chemotherapy. The study showed that breast cancer survivors who have been treated with...

Nothing is lost if it is loved

I was reading a book ‘Before I Go – Letters to Our Children about what Really Matters’  by Peter Kreeft and I came across this quote that just struck me. It was so profound I’ve been thinking about it all day – and all those who are gone...

Do you really know him?

This week the subject of our newsletter was reflections on remembrance and in it I asked the question – Do we really know the people we care for? That question was prompted by the image created by Brian Fray and published in the Guelph Tribune. It seems to me it...

Trevor Greene – an amazing story

Trevor Greene’s recovery is an incredible story about the determination of an individual and the ability to comeback from a traumatic brain injury. He and his wife Debbie are re-writing conventional wisdom about the ability of the brain to recover from traumatic...