Future of Healthcare. Healthcare as an industry is changing through technology, medical and research innovations, physician reform and hospital re-organizations. Dr. David Samadi will explore long term issues, debates innovations directly influencing the healthcare industry and what both healthcare professionals and patients need to know.
We are all conditioned to believe that “you can't teach an old dog new tricks,” that as we get older, we can't learn new skills easily and we just won't be as sharp as we were in our callow youth.But what if that's all it was: conditioning? What if we really do continue to learn the way we did as children well into our golden years?
Read MoreNow a team of scientists out of UCLA have pushed the needle back in the other direction, upholding that, in fact, men's and women's brains are wired quite differently.
Read MoreResearchers at the University of Texas, Dallas, have just released a study which purports that people with the busiest schedules perform best on cognitive tests.
Read MoreSometimes you never realize just how simple it may be to make meaningful changes to the part of your body we use the most – our brain.
Read MoreIt is second nature for mothers to rock their newborns while singing them lullabies. It's not even a learned activity, it is second nature. Maybe now we know why that is.
Read MoreWhile often incorrectly considered a disease, dementia actually refers to a group of symptoms which negatively affect memory and social abilities, resulting in an interference with daily functioning. Primarily, problems with memory and impaired judgment or language are the two major areas affected by dementia. However, numerous other causes and symptoms of dementia exist, which can make diagnosis and treatment difficult or even impossible. But now, health researchers have found that nearly 47 million people are living with dementia globally which is a major increased from 35 million in 2009. The question is why is this increasing so rapidly? They warned that there hasn't been a medical breakthrough and the numbers will likely continue to grow every 20 or so years.
Read MoreIn the latest experiment, scientists analyzed mice to understand what happens to lost memories. The question: Are they wiped out permanently or still there? We explore.
Read MoreA new study has proven that chimpanzees actually have the mental capacity to cook. The study conducted by a pair of scientists out of Harvard and Yale actually found that chimps and humans share some of the basic brain skills needed for cooking. This finding could actually explain a turning point in the story of man kind.
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