FIVE HEALTHY LIFESTYLE BEHAVIOURS have been found to be associated with a LOWER RISK OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. A recently published study confirms previous evidence that the risk of Alzheimer’s disease is reduced in people who follow some or all of 5 ‘healthy lifestyle’ behaviours: (a) not smoking (b) 150 minutes or more per week of moderate/vigorous-intensity physical activity (c) light to moderate alcohol consumption (d) a MIND diet (see below) and (e) engagement in late-life cognitive activities. https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2020/06/16/WNL.0000000000009816 The MIND…..
“MUSIC, ESPECIALLY THE MUSIC THAT MOVES US MOST, CAN BOND PEOPLE TOGETHER” wrote the authors of this study who demonstrated (unsurprisingly) that music listener’s cortical brain activity mirrored the music performer’s activity. This study went a step further however to show that the greater the mirroring (‘inter-brain coherence’) the more the listener was “fond of the performance”. The researchers (based in Shanghai, Harbin and Stockholm) used an imaging technique (functional near infra-red spectroscopy) and recorded levels of activity in the…..