Sandy Eaton @sandy576

The Atlas of Cognitive Disorders.

The amazing Typewriter Concerto... For anyone who needs a smile today... This is Leroy Anderson's 'The Typewriter' for orchestra, complete with all the familiar 'dings' and clitter-clattering of a typewriter. The soloist here is Alfredo Anaya, with conductor Miguel Roa

Lecanemab improves amyloid biomarkers but worsens neuronal/synaptic biomarkers. Should we question whether successful amyloid removal improves the biology that matters most? My take on the new study: lnkd.in/p/gfzXAHdj

Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Cuts Long COVID Risk by Nearly a Third in Immune Population bioengineer.org/fourth-covid-1…

There’s an emerging theory that ADHD is likely a distinct cognitive style with its own strengths, one that was designed for certain kinds of environments. Here’s what that means for people with an ADHD diagnosis and their families, explains @justin_garson psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-bi…

My phone said "Storage Full" for the third time this week. I almost deleted 200 photos of my dog. Then my friend (an ex-Apple employee) grabbed my phone and laughed. "You're about to delete memories to fix a problem Apple buried in Settings." 2 minutes later, I had 50GB back. Zero photos deleted. Here's the menu nobody checks

BREAKING: NYC COVID hospitalizations have passed the peak of the 2025 summer wave.

@MMedinanews @shannonrwatts The problem is the tight fit below your chest which emphasizes your breasts big time!

In the earlier and middle stages of dementia, we often see a person's whole day collapse into watching more and more TV. So I asked Dr Bryce Appelbaum: is that passive habit actually making things worse? His answer, gently but clearly: use it or lose it applies to cognition AND vision. He's watched loved ones in his own family drift into less stimulation — more TV, less movement — and become less aroused, less aware, and less alert over time. Watch the full conversation with Dr. Appelbaum here: youtube.com/watch?v=tkwSfy… The mechanism matters. When you stop letting vision guide movement, and you stop getting up and walking, you lose the blood flow, oxygen, and nutrients that keep key brain areas firing. A more sedentary, static life means less learning and less adapting. And he goes further: screens can act like a kind of toxicity for the visual and nervous systems. The takeaway for caregivers isn't "TV is evil." It's that passive, static routines quietly accelerate decline — and that movement, real-world engagement, and vision that guides the body are protective. If someone you love has settled into the recliner all day, this is your nudge to get them moving. 🚶 #Dementia #Caregiving #Alzheimers #BrainHealth #HealthyAging

People often say trauma is “stored in the body.” But some neuroscientists argue the deeper issue is that the brain keeps predicting danger long after the threat has passed—and the body keeps reacting accordingly. Fortunately, healing is possible. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-ho…

Our occupational therapist explains why your surroundings affect memory and mood, and how to make small, lasting changes to your environment that can help. cle.clinic/4qLeIfl

TODO EL MUNDO USA GOOGLE MAPS. Pero nadie lo usa bien. La mayoría hace siempre lo mismo, escribe una dirección, pulsa “Cómo llegar” y ya. Pero Maps tiene funciones que pueden ahorrarte tiempo, gasolina, discusiones y algún susto. Estas son 8 que deberías conocer:

Fix a cabinet door when the hinge screws have stripped the wood. A simple metal reinforcement plate fits over the damaged area, creating a solid new surface to securely re-attach the hinge.

Last Covid update of the week for New York State shows 719 new cases. Remember, with a lack of people testing and at home test the real number is many times higher. It would be highly unusual and a red flag if New York keeps rising again next week.

Talking to yourself in the third person, using your own name instead of "I," reduces anxiety without any cognitive effort. A 2017 study in Scientific Reports used brain scans and found that third-person self-talk dampened the emotional response in the brain as effectively as other regulation strategies, but without activating the effortful control regions. The study was led by Jason Moser and Ethan Kross at the University of Michigan. They showed participants upsetting images and asked them to respond in two ways: using first person ("I feel...") or using their own name ("John feels..."). The brain scans showed that third-person self-talk reduced activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, a region involved in self-referential emotional processing, and it did so within one second. The key finding was what did not happen. Other emotion regulation strategies, like reappraisal or suppression, require the prefrontal cortex to work hard, which takes energy and depletes over time. Third-person self-talk achieved the same calming effect without engaging the cognitive control network. The brain was regulating itself automatically, as though talking about yourself as another person created enough psychological distance to reduce the emotional charge. Kross said the finding suggests that third-person self-talk functions as a form of self-distancing: by referring to yourself the way you would refer to a friend, you adopt the same calm, advisory perspective you would use for someone else's problem. The shift is linguistic, it takes one second, and the brain responds immediately. LeBron James has talked publicly about using this technique before big games. The study says the reason it works is that the brain treats "I am nervous" and "LeBron is nervous" as two different problems, and the second one is easier to solve. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28674404/

Mask up in #NYC, and cancel what you're doing to get your booster today. Kings County is raging with COVlD, per today's CDC update. PMC estimates 1 in 20 residents actively infectious, as of the most recent data on Sep 12. pmc19.com/map

I'm a neurodivergent health researcher and I can't emphasize this enough: Not everything that supports your mental health has to look like “mental-health work.” Here are 11 stupid-simple but way too underused mental health tools: 1. Read fiction (supports your mood, absorbs your attention, and lets you experience the world through someone else’s eyes).

A brilliant new @Nature synthesis of what we know about Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis, which is non-linear, with discrete phases (Figure), and notable inflection and transition points. Also helps to explain why symptoms do not correlate with underlying pathology. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Real world sleep patterns and disease risk from >95,000 @uk_biobank participants @PLOSMedicine 6-8 hours of sleep duration is good and "can effectively reduce the risk of multiple diseases" (but that implies cause and effect, not established ) More REM linked to lower risk of 83 diseases, including dementia, Parkinson's and heart failure More Deep sleep associated with lower risk of 7 diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes and major depressive disorder journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…

Airport air sampling captures COVID, influenza viruses Researchers say air monitoring complements wastewater testing in detecting respiratory pathogens from diverse populations, including asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people. Read more: bit.ly/4AyPxkK