Month: January 2025

How Drinking Alcohol Can Affect Your Health

With the new year comes Dry January and a new surgeon general’s advisory on alcohol and cancer risk. Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods have thrown cold water on that. “Drinking less is a great way to be healthier,”… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David […]

Published on January 3, 2025

Beyond executive functioning: rethinking the impact of bilingualism

The possibility that bilingualism could impact cognitive ability began with research with children [1], but others reported that bilingual middle-aged and older adults outperformed their counterparts on a Simon task commonly used to investigate attention and perception [2]. These results suggested there could be broader implications for bilingualism than had been previously considered. The paper […]

Published on January 3, 2025

Cognitive impairments in chronic pain: a brain aging framework

Chronic pain (CP) not only causes physical discomfort but also significantly affects cognition. This review first summarizes emerging findings that reveal complex associations between CP and cognitive impairments, and then presents neuroimaging evidence showing aging-related brain alterations in CP and proposes a framework where accelerated brain aging links CP to cognitive impairments. This framework explains […]

Published on January 3, 2025