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Readers Write: The risks of simple investing, Minneapolis charter, fighting, teaching during a pandemic, Alzheimers disease Can you really be a "Couch Potato"?  February 15, 2021 — 6:00pm Text size Copy shortlink: The "Couch Potato" low-cost portfolio described by Scott Burns ("How simple can pay off," Jan. 27) concludes that you can do nothing and everything will work out. He does not disclose what the investments were or exactly ...

Sister, and so a group of s sisters all born around the same time. the goal of the study was to collect the brains at a autopsy and to try to correlate day-to-day functioning during life with the type and level of burden of lesions on the brain after death. these are just two examples of cases from the nun study and one of sthem a brathem is a brain w alzheimers disease and then the normal aged brain, and one is particularly affected and one is affected in the formation of memory is the hip camp...

Connections, new synapses, and the more you learn the more backup cognitive reserve youve got. there was a great study, a nun study, where these nuns were followed for two decades, older age, 75 and older, and when they died their brains were donated for autopsy. one of the shocking things that came out of the study is that some of the brains, which upon autopsy looks like clear alzheimers pathology. it had plaques and tangles and brain shrinkage from neuron to cell death, the scientists looking...