HenryFord.com - Niacin, or vitamin B3, a common water-soluble B vitamin, may help improve neurological function after stroke, according to an early NIH-funded study by Henry Ford Hospital researchers.
When rats with ischemic stroke were given niacin, their brains showed growth of new blood vessels, and sprouting of nerve cells which greatly improved neurological outcome.
Now research [...]

UTHSCSA.edu - Rapamycin, a FDA-approved medication that keeps the immune system from attacking transplanted organs, may have another exciting use: fighting Alzheimer’s disease.
Rapamycin rescued learning and memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s, a team from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio reported February 23, 2010.
The study, in the Journal [...]

AAN.com - A Mediterranean diet may help people avoid the small areas of brain damage that can lead to problems with thinking and memory, according to a recent study.
The NIH-funded study found that people who ate a Mediterranean-like diet were less likely to have brain infarcts, or small areas of dead tissue linked to thinking [...]

JAMA / Archives - Moderate or high physical activity appears to be associated with a lower the risk of developing age-related cognitive impairment in older adults after a two-year period. Thorleif Etgen, M.D., of Technische Universität München, Munich, and Klinikum Traunstein, Germany, and colleagues examined physical activity and cognitive function in 3,903 participants (older than [...]

JAMA / Archives - One year of once- or twice-weekly resistance training (weight training) appears to improve attention and conflict resolution skills among older women. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Ph.D., P.T., of Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues studied 155 women age 65 to 75. Participants were randomly assigned [...]

JAMA / Archives - Women who regularly participated in physical activity during middle age appear more likely to be in better overall health when they reach 70 years of age and older. Qi Sun, M.D., Sc.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School and colleagues analyzed data from 13,535 participants in [...]