alzheimer

inflammation Many major diseases including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, depression, and Alzheimer’s have been linked to chronic inflammation. Inflammation as a central mechanism in Alzheimer’s disease Is brain inflammation the missing trigger? Foods That Fight Inflammation debate on the beta-amyloid hypothesis Note the comments by Prof. Ashe who oversaw Lesne’s paper. She declined to comment to the Science article but commented on Alzforum. Notably, she claims the journalist conflated two forms of Aβ and drew invalid conclusions....

memory-palace

A digital garden can be regarded as a more organic and natural alternative to the palace or building metaphor of the memory palace. In this mnemonic technique the subject memorizes the layout of some building, or the arrangement of shops on a street, or any geographical entity which is composed of a number of discrete loci. When desiring to remember a set of items the subject ‘walks’ through these loci in their imagination and commits an item to each one by forming an image between the item and any feature of that locus....