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Gillian Eadie
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CEO Brain and Memory Foundation.
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In 2005, Zach Jordan’s future father-in-law asked him to join him on his quest to climb Kilimanjaro. He saw it as an opportunity to get to know each another and establish a strong relationship.
As they prepared for the climb, his own father began his journey ‘down the rabbit hole of Alzheimer’s’. All three were facing the climb of their lives and the mountain became a metaphor. Zach has filmed the story of his father-in-law, his father’s Alzheimer’s, and himself, a father-to-be, trying to glean wisdom and grow up in the face of new beginnings and the sunset of the man who was supposed to give him all the answers.
Read his story
Do we remember as well now we have Google? Can you remember a time when ‘Google’ wasn’t even a word? I’ll bet your grand-kids can’t believe you’re that old! The days of dragging down encyclopaedia and large dictionaries to find an elusive fact have long gone – we just ‘Google it’.
Have you ever wondered why people don’t seem to know much ‘general knowledge’ these days? You are not the only one who wants to know why.
Researchers at Columbia University conducted an experiment to find out if people remembered the information they looked up on Google, in the same way as students recall facts they believe will be in a test. Read more…
Haven’t we all been there?
We know exercise is good for us – the trouble is, it means stopping what you are doing, getting out of that comfy chair and putting one foot in front of the other!
And we all know of some fitness freak who died at a frighteningly early age. Look where exercise got him!
But an exciting new study has just demonstrated that we don’t have to exercise like crazy to have a fit and alert mind.
Moderate, everyday exercise will do it. Read more…
Have you been forgetting a few things lately?
Had trouble remembering passwords?
Forgotten if you’d taken your medication or turned off the oven?
So, what’s happening?
Are you losing your edge?
Or getting Alzheimer’s?
No!
It’s NOT a ‘senior moment’
It’s NOT the loss of brain cells
It’s NOT your brain shutting down
Your memory is still all there!
But you do need to learn the ways to find it. Read more…
Don’t you HATE it when that happens?
You KNOW you know ….
That word
That name
That number
You just can”t THINK of it.
So what’s happening??
Brain overload?
Too many things in your mind at once?
Too many drinks?
Didn’t take enough notice in the first place?
Exhausted? Read more…
Here’s the best news for Baby Boomers this year!
Latest US Study Finds Brain Training Linked to Decreased Risk of Alzheimer’s.
Have you ever worried, like me, that someday you might suffer from Alzheimer’s? Recently, my sister Allison and I nursed our lovely mother, Jeanie, through the final stages of of this form of dementia. Sadly it’s an experience that more and more of our age group are going through. You probably know of someone yourself who has Alzheimer’s.It’s scary to watch because the person you knew so well gradually drifts away from you as memory loss takes over. No-one really knows what causes it. No-one has yet discovered a cure for it. And thousands more are being diagnosed with it every day.
That’s why this new research is such good news for healthy over-50′s. Read more…
Who hasn’t been trapped in a cab and forced to listen to the unfiltered opinions of a taxi driver as you simply try to make your way home from the airport? I’m sure you weren’t pondering the size of the cabbie’s brain as he “entertained” you with his opinions on the politics of the day.
However, new research from the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology has found that taxi drivers’ brains actually grow when they have to learn so much new information.
Read more…
Earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunami – what’s happening to the world?
Earthquake stress.
And all of these disasters have left heartbreak in their wake. Dr. Lamont (co-founder of the Brain and Memory Foundation) lives in Christchurch and fortunately sustained very little damage. She is a counsellor and conducts the Christchurch Memory Clinic. Many very distressed clients are coming to her at the moment because of earthquake stress. From her blog:
“People are describing themselves as ‘scattered’, with little focus or concentration. Technology experts are talking of looking away from their computer screens and then being unable to recall what they had been viewing seconds before. Inability to recall well-known information is causing added distress. Teachers report students are unable to stay ‘on task’. This has far-reaching ramifications as work productivity drops and students prepare for end-of-year examinations.”
So what can be done to help these symptoms? Read more…
So there I was, sitting in the courtyard of a lovely little restaurant, enjoying the late summer sun, and the last mouthful of heavenly Chardonnay, when I heard my husband calling my name from the counter, where he was paying the bill.
Something in his voice didn’t sound quite right so I went up to join him, and in a hushed but panicky voice he said,
“Darling, I can’t remember the pin number for my card”. Read more…
