By Dr. Joe

Many people worry about losing their memory, as they get older. No doubt Alzheimer’s disease is more common than in years gone by. This partly reflects people living longer but also reflects how we treat and look after our brains.

Whilst there are no cast iron guarantees in this world it makes sense to do the sorts of things, which are good for the brain and make it less likely that we lose our faculties in later years.

So with this in mind here are a dozen ways to do the right thing by your brain.

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What happens when you dream? A new study suggests that your dreams may be a way of telling you that your brain is hard at work consolidating recent memories, which in turn helps us to perform better on performance-related tasks. Researchers from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School showed that your sleeping brain is working on memories at multiple levels, including ways that directly improve performance. The study was reported in a recent issue of Current Biology.

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