David Perlmutter

Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects. ”

While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance. ”

Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded. ”

As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention. ”

The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis. ”

People are getting to this place of understanding that their lifestyle choices actually do matter a whole lot as opposed to this notion that you live your life, come what may, and hope for a pill. ”

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease. ”

When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred. ”

Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand. ”

Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever. ”