by | Oct 6, 2026 | Brain Health Articles
Brain health advice is increasingly delivered as a bundle: move more, eat better, challenge your mind, sleep well, monitor blood pressure, connect socially. The logic is appealing. The brain is not separate from the rest of the body, so why would one isolated habit be...
by Teralyn Sell, PhD | Sep 29, 2026 | Brain Health Articles, Human Performance insights
A new study from UC Berkeley has connected three things that deserve attention: tau buildup in the frontal cortex, changes in slow brain waves during non-REM sleep, and weaker overnight memory formation in older adults.That sounds straightforward. It isn’t.The...
by Teralyn Sell, PhD | Sep 22, 2026 | Brain Health Articles
Sleep has become one of the most heavily measured parts of modern life. We have sleep scores, readiness scores, overnight heart-rate graphs, stage estimates, and a steady stream of claims that one bad pattern may be quietly damaging the brain. That sounds...
by Teralyn Sell, PhD | Sep 15, 2026 | Brain Health Articles
A newly published trial offers a useful brain-health finding, along with a useful reason to slow down before turning it into a headline. In the PROMED-EX trial, adults age 60 and older who were at risk of undernutrition and reported subjective cognitive decline were...
by Teralyn Sell, PhD | Sep 12, 2026 | Brain Health Articles
The latest World Health Organization guidance on reducing cognitive decline and dementia risk makes an important shift: brain health is not best understood as one behavior, one nutrient, or one clever intervention. It is a multidomain issue.That sounds...
