Mindfully Healing

Just one cup a day is enough to reduce the risk. Drinking tea is linked to a dramatic reduction in the risk of cognitive impairment in older people, new research suggests. A single daily cup of tea reduces cognitive decline in those over 55 by 50%, the Chinese study found. Among those with a genetic susceptibility to Alzheimer’s, though, this risk reduction increased to 86%. It did not matter which type of tea people consumed: green, black or oolong. The only thing that mattered was that the tea was brewed

Some children are at a higher risk of developing psychopathy. Boys with psychopathic tendencies report less desire to fit in with the laughter of other children, research finds. Unlike most children, and adults, boys at risk of psychopathy do not find laughter contagious. Brain scans also showed they had a lower response to the laughter of others. Professor Essi Viding, study author, said: “It is not appropriate to label children psychopaths. Psychopathy is an adult personality disorder. However, we do know from longitudinal research that there are certain children who

A particular part of the brain is one of the first to be affected by dementia. Losing your sense of smell is an early sign of dementia, new research finds. Almost all the people in the research who could not identify any of five common smells went on to develop dementia within five years. Those who could not name four out of five common smells, had twice the risk of developing dementia in the next five years. Professor Jayant M. Pinto, who led the research, said: “These results show that