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Mediterranean Diet Better Than Low-Fat Diet In Keeping Aging Brains Sharp
Thank the olive oil or the nuts, but something about the Mediterranean diet could help older brains to act young again. There's plenty of evidence that the...
New Spate of Sexual-Assault Reports Resurrects a Painful Memory
With recent investigation of the Army coordinator of one of Fort Hood’s sexual-abuse prevention programs, coupled with the arrest of an Air Force officer in...
Mediterranean Diet Improves Memory, But Not In Diabetics
The largest study to date on the effects of eating omega-3 fatty acids confirm that foods high in the fats can preserve memory and cognitive functions only in...
Want to Hold On to a Memory? Make a Fist
Getting a grip—literally— by clenching your right fist before remembering information and your left when you want to remember it can boost your recall, according...
Brain Exercises Better than Drugs in Preventing Cognitive Decline
With an aging population, rates of dementia will only climb, yet doctors have few effective strategies for addressing the worst symptoms. Mild cognitive...
Photo Essays
The Practice of Medicine, Perfected: Portrait of a Doctor, France, 1953
So much has been written about the American healthcare system in recent years — in short, that it’s an insanely byzantine, profit-driven train wreck — that it’s...
LIFE at Lascaux: Early Color Photos From Another World
The story is so improbable, so marvelous, that it feels more like the remnant of a dream, or a half-remembered myth, rather than something that unfolded within...
Time.com Specials
Don't You Hate It? Andy Rooney's Grumpiest Moments
60 Minutes correspondent Andy Rooney passed away November 4, 2011 at the age of 92. In memory of Rooney's 33-year career on the CBS show, TIME took a look at...
Top 25 Political Icons
Feb. 6 marks the 100th birthday of the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Few political figures in recent memory have matched the Gipper's charisma or enduring...
