Fruit and Nut Stuffing

As the daughter of a really, really good cook, I’m rarely in the position to give my mom a recipe. But for the past three years my mom has phoned me for this recipe. Since I was typing it out for her I thought I would share it here on the blog. It is a fabulous...

Prescribing Mozart

A recent article reported in the Yale Journal of Medicine and Law examined the expanding field of musical therapy. Music therapy is being proposed as a treatment for autism, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease, to name a few. Highly individualized programs...

Social stimulation is important for brain health

While computers can be great for so many things it is important to remember that complex human interaction can vastly improve our cognitive skills — reasoning, contextual thinking, problem-solving, decision-making. When we enter into a human relationship we are...

Identifying Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear

Durin Technologies Inc, a New Jersey based company has developed a new blood test for Alzheimer’s that they believe is 96% accurate and can perhaps detect the disease even before symptoms such as memory loss occur. Currently doctors use evaluation of behaviour...

Coffee – Protecting you against Alzheimer’s Disease.

A study to be published on June 28th in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease suggests that drinking coffee in moderate amounts (4 to 5 cups a day) can protect an individual from the development of Alzheimer’s Disease. The research team has concluded that a...